Welcome aboard the forums and the hobby both, so glad to have you here. Some people get started with a family project, and for some one is done, for others well, we just gravitate to this whole concept of taking perfectly good fabric apart and then put it back together again.
I met my husband online playing a game, he was originally in the Grand Rapids area and I have been there but not to the UP yet. We are both waving from a safe personal distance near Seattle. I was hoping to go to the big quilt show this year -- maybe next year!
https://www.quiltweek.com/locations/grand-rapids/