I had the honor of meeting Kurt Luebke from Montana earlier this week. He was in the neighborhood visiting kinfolk and swung by the office at closing. We went to a local brew pub for a quick beer before he jetted off to meet up with his family for dinner. Talk about jetting - Kurt has crews all over the great American west working on a multitude of projects... he'd just finished working on a highway R/W retracement project over in northeastern Oregon (lucky stiff). The next morning he was flying out to sit for another PLS test in the Midwest since his company had lost an employee who had that particular state's license. This will be license 11 or 12 for the lad. Oh, and earlier in the month he detoured from his whirlwind schedule to travel down to the Black Hills and tramp around with J. Penry (lucky stiff). It was a real pleasure talking survey with him. And Montana talk... I haven't been back to the state for decades now and it made me want to visit again. Someday.
We could have made it a beer leg quorum as Kevin Samuel was here at the office too when Kurt rolled in, but Kevin had parenting duties to attend to. Hopefully next time Kurt is in the area we can have us a full blown mini beerlegger hoopla. By then he'll be licensed in all 50 states and won't need to bug out so quick.
That's great. Those in certain eastern states can throw a rock and hit a surveyor's office in the next state (sort of like seeing Russia from your back porch in Alaska). Western states, especially Montana, could swallow up multiple eastern states.
As an aside, I've been watching a lot of episodes of the 1957-1962 TV show, Laramie. About every fourth episode there is some adventure that takes them from 12 miles east of Laramie, WY to either Montana or Canada. Apparently, those who wrote the episodes had no grasp of geography and the huge effort it would have taken to reach those distant destinations in 1870.
Mike Berry, post: 397212, member: 123 wrote:
By then he'll be licensed in all 50 states and won't need to bug out so quick.
Dude's on a mission!
Excellent post.
Brad Ott, post: 397284, member: 197 wrote: Excellent post.
Brad - when you start your march to the (western) sea accumulating licenses out this way, perhaps we can have a beerlegger for you in Oregon!
Wow! Thanks for the kudo's Mike. The pleasure was all mine to finally meet up with you. I hope to be able to spend enough time in Bend one of these days for you to show me some good Oregon history. The next beer is on me!
Kurt Luebke, post: 398190, member: 681 wrote: Wow! Thanks for the kudo's Mike. The pleasure was all mine to finally meet up with you. I hope to be able to spend enough time in Bend one of these days for you to show me some good Oregon history. The next beer is on me!
I am just curious, I have a friend named Richard Luebke that is from Suttgart, Arkansas and as Luebke is not the most common of names, are you gu6ys related?
Bushwhacker, post: 398210, member: 10727 wrote: I am just curious, I have a friend named Richard Luebke that is from Suttgart, Arkansas and as Luebke is not the most common of names, are you gu6ys related?
Not that I know. Most of my relatives are in the midwest where I grew up. I have rarely seen the same spelling out west.
