..I had forgotten about the fishing, now that it has been mentioned I remember the guy I took fly tying lessons from ws from Grand Rapids. Said there was great fishing downtown.
Anyways, its not sounding like a bad place.
Oh, and Grand Valley sounds like fun, coming down from the womanless Michigan Tech
Actually there is fishing right in the Grand River running by the downtown GVSU campus building.
However, as of 1993 when I was there, GVSU downtown was a single building, catering mostly to the off campus living (read older) and the School of Criminal Justice (read a lot more guys than gals) students.
The main campus is only 15 miles west, in Ferrysburg {edit Allendale, hello what was I thinking?}. Or you could cruise over to JC, or go over to Calvin or Cornerstone on the northeast side of town if you like girls of the Christian Reformed or Baptist variety, or Aquinas if you like plaid skirt kind of girls.
East Grand Rapids was a trendy, clubby kind of place way back when, and 28th street was the resturaunt row and mainstream entertainment district. There was a decent sized mall at 28th and Beltline. 4 or 5 miles west down 28th was the biggest movie theater I'd seen in my life until I moved to Dallas.
But it's coming up on summertime, and beachfront west Michigan is the place to be for that. From my understanding,
all of west Michigan has great beaches. Those I know, which are fortunately for you, closest to GR, are Grand Haven State Park (uptown blonde Dutch gals), Hoffmaster State park (in Fruitport - probably the very best dunes that I've seen, and the best actual beach, extremely family oriented, most people here are going to be on vacation and camping at the park, which has
great camping facilities), Pier Marquette in Muskegon is the place for earthy, blue collar gals who are more likely to respond positively to crude, seductive suggestions shouted by guys driving slowly by in a 1977 chevy van with the sliding door open and Boston's "More than a feeling" pumping into the night air.
Muskegon State Park (North of North Muskegon) is another beautiful park, like Hoffmaster, if you're more interested in the water, dunes, sand and pine forests than the girls. Duck lake state park is another in North Muskegon. It is an inland lake connected to Lake Michigan.
Silver lake sand dunes is probably
the premier ORV spot in west Michigan, about 30 miles north of Muskegon.
Question, have you ever bow-fished? I never have, but had buddies in high school that did. If that's your thing, say so, I'll email them and ask for dates and places. I seem to recall that springtime at night, in the Grand River in Spring lake was the aproximate place and time.
