] I was born in Seattle Wash...then moved to the Eastern part of the state when I was a teenager...don't know if you know of the area or not..Wenatchee, Wash to be exact...spent 25 yrs. there..that is where I did all my bottle digging.when my kids were young, we spent every weekend, vacation ect. hunting old homesteads, mining camps, ghost towns, and of course old dumps...I have been into Oregon some..mostly to the ocean..I bet that it is pretty similar to Eastern Wash, where you are...I left my home state over a year and a half ago...now I am in southern Illinois..learning a whole new area[8D] happy hunting[]] i can't win though, I'm from NY State originally, and even though I've lived in Maine since 1977, I'm still 'from away'. I find except for the deep south, a lot of the local dialects seem to be becoming homoginized into a general one. In spite of all the dipictions on the tube, you really don't hear a lot of Mainers saying 'ayah', unless you get 'downeast'.
