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December 2002:

We're settled in Fowlerville, Michigan, David's hometown which he hasn't seen in 18 years.

Here you see us in Plymouth, at an ice sculpting event and riding in a carriage. It was COLD.

We sold our car and most of our furniture, built a super skate park in St Lys and said good bye to all of our friends in France before moving back to America.

We arrived in Detroit on November 30, 2002. David's friend Gino picked us up at the airport.

Our new, permanent, address is:

David and Andree Weimer, 103 Lynn Drive, Fowlerville, Michigan 48836 U.S.A.

Oh boy.

This is Fowlerville. This is Livingston County. This is Michigan. Since coming to Michigan, we have been looking at skate parks in the region. Here is a list of skate parks in Michigan put together by a skateboard and BMX enthusiast. He's given his rating of each park. Not included in his list is the new Vans Skate Park in Novi (about 30 minutes to drive from here) and the super new bowl in Mason (about 20 minutes to drive), built by Team Pain, a famous builder of wood and concrete skate parks.

April 23, 2003:

One small step for a man (and a woman and a boy)...

David, Andree and Guillaume attended a meeting of the Parks and Recreation Committee in Fowlerville. We presented our proposal to six members of the committee. We told them we could bring in our team of builders and designers from France and build a great skate park here for around 20,000 dollars; or we could build something small, involving the local urban sports enthusiasts, at our own expense. Guess which one they were interested in?....

Here is our PROPOSAL.

Discussion of the skate park in Fowlerville was referred on to the Fowlerville City Council.

One giant leap for skate-park-kind---maybe.

May 19, 2003:

David attended the Fowlerville City Council meeting on Monday night.

He spoke to the newly chosen city manager, Dennis White, and approximately nine other members of the city's governing council. Many members were receptive to at least the spirit of his proposal. They were supportive of anything that will offer the large number of skateboarders and BMX riders in this town something to do, AND, anything that will give the park benches, business rails, steps and parking lots in Fowlerville some relief from enthusiastic urban sports practitioners..

Perhaps something will happen here. We'll see.

WANTED:

David is preparing a "wanted poster" to call a first meeting of interested BMX riders, skateboarders and inliners on Saturday, May 24, 2003. They'll be meeting in the Centennial Park pavillion. This is where we see who's interested in getting their hands dirty! We're going to start planning the skate park and dirt trails, so that when and if we get permission to build them, we'll be able to charge ahead and do something before we all become too old and brittle to get up off our rockers.

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Watch as the reality of this park materializes out of the stuff of dreams.

a bientôt!