Quick road trip thoughts.
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Here's a few thoughts that I've had about some states I have passed through while on my way to the Seattle area.
Kansas - very flat, very boring
Colorado- a sham. I expected more mountains, or at least one mountain of significant size. Denver traffic was horrid.
Wyoming - I drove right by Buford, population - 1. That was the most populated area that I saw. Nice scenery. Wtf are variable speed limits? I just went 90 the whole way. Hundreds of miles between man made objects.
Utah - under construction. Every inch of it. SLC was larger than I expected, and coming down the mountain and seeing SLC in front of me was nice.
Idaho - drove from bottom to top and didn't see a single potato anywhere. There was one tumbleweed. Not very memorable in any way.
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In Oregon right now. So far, has been the land that could be beautiful, but instead is brown. Also, I went down a hill for close to an hour.
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Also, on Utah, while watching the news (abc), all they did was talk about how great republicans are and how BYU students are infinitely better than all other college students. Didn't care much for that amount of bias crammed in my face.
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Id love to road trip the States!
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I live in Utah, and drive to Illinois twice every year.
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I've seen more highway patrols so far in Oregon than I've seen in total throughout the earlier parts of the trip, and I'm not even that far in.
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Comō wrote:
Missouri is kinda fun to drive through. The ozarks are nice.I live in Utah, and drive to Illinois twice every year.
The only thing south of springfield IL are farms and meth labs.
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I drove East coast(NYC) to west coast(San Diego) via southern states in 2008 with 3 of buddies. What a time, ended up in Vegas at the end. Only regret is no TW at the time. Cudda planted some turf
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Made it through tress and hills... Tons of them. Now all there is, as far as I can see, is flat and mostly treeless ground.
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Nothing about Minnesota?
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I was in Idaho once. Ate potatoes from Washington. Next day I was in Washington and had apples grown in Idaho. I was very disappointed.
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Detranger wrote:
I didn't drive through minnesota.Nothing about Minnesota?
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Oregon transformed from brown hills to beautiful mountains. The highway next to the Columbia River is an amazing drive. Blue water on one side, and green mountains on the other. I stopped to take a picture at one point, and saw a wild ram on the other side of the highway. I didn't even know those existed.
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And holy fuck waterfalls!!
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✵ᎢཡཇཇᏦ✵ wrote:
The Rocky Mountains... That John Denver is full of shit, man.Here's a few thoughts that I've had about some states I have passed through while on my way to the Seattle area.
Kansas - very flat, very boring
Colorado- a sham. I expected more mountains, or at least one mountain of significant size. Denver traffic was horrid.
Wyoming - I drove right by Buford, population - 1. That was the most populated area that I saw. Nice scenery. Wtf are variable speed limits? I just went 90 the whole way. Hundreds of miles between man made objects.
Utah - under construction. Every inch of it. SLC was larger than I expected, and coming down the mountain and seeing SLC in front of me was nice.
Idaho - drove from bottom to top and didn't see a single potato anywhere. There was one tumbleweed. Not very memorable in any way.
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✵ᎢཡཇཇᏦ✵ wrote:
Haha I spent two years in the mountains of Idaho wild freakin rams and the head butting used to wake me up all the time! Trout fishing was excellent also!Oregon transformed from brown hills to beautiful mountains. The highway next to the Columbia River is an amazing drive. Blue water on one side, and green mountains on the other. I stopped to take a picture at one point, and saw a wild ram on the other side of the highway. I didn't even know those existed.
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Very entertaining
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RSXJR wrote:
Jealous, but I always get dominated trout fishing. Smallies my ticket.✵ᎢཡཇཇᏦ✵ wrote:
Haha I spent two years in the mountains of Idaho wild freakin rams and the head butting used to wake me up all the time! Trout fishing was excellent also!Oregon transformed from brown hills to beautiful mountains. The highway next to the Columbia River is an amazing drive. Blue water on one side, and green mountains on the other. I stopped to take a picture at one point, and saw a wild ram on the other side of the highway. I didn't even know those existed.
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The majority of Arizona, new mexico, and Texas was nearly all dry flat desert.
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Liked your descriptions, Tweek. Nice read.
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petinc wrote:
Liked your descriptions, Tweek. Nice read.
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✵ᎢཡཇཇᏦ✵ wrote:
And how would you know they were meth labs?Comō wrote:
Missouri is kinda fun to drive through. The ozarks are nice.I live in Utah, and drive to Illinois twice every year.
The only thing south of springfield IL are farms and meth labs.
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I'm in the Badlands right now. Drove from Wisconsin to Colorado Springs and on the return trip. Badlands is cool, we took the Prius over 20 miles of dirt trail to see the Stronghold. It's an important place way out in the boonies of the Badlands.
The Sandhills of Nebraska is beautiful. I never thought I'd have anything nice to say about Nebraska.
Someone fucked up the Black Hills with a bunch of tourist crap. Bastards!
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We went south through Rocky Mountain Natl Park. Avoided Denver traffic and stayed west to the springs. Saw lots of mountains, too damn much scenic wonder. Actually got burnt out on mountains.
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What part of Colorado? Di you actually drive through the mountains? And which part of Idaho? I use to live in both states: the foothills on the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, and in Idaho Falls
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Wish me luck - I'm planning on doing a small road trip with my girlfriend - to propose. Lol. Hopefully we'll come home engaged 😊
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OSU's version of the road trip..
Oklahoma:flat n hot as hell; highlight was watching Tweek change a blown out tire next to a 3+ day old dead armadillo and him gagging excessively the whole time!
Kansas: flat,highway patrol every 15 miles, boring, and cell phone service occasionally
Colorado: bit of a letdown in terms of scenery. Denver offered an hour sitting on the highway for construction and cell phone service getting worse!
Wyoming: some decent mountains; super nice rest stop bathroom; convinced only a handful live in this state! Where the hell are the houses and civilization?? Better have a full tank of gas going into this state and dont bother looking at your cell phone unless you enjoy the word "searching" -
Utah: the phrase the hills have eyes kept creeping into my mind!! Felt like I was on a roller coaster of twists n turns. Going into salt lake was a pretty sweet view at night all lit up. Cell phone has been tossed to the back seat from a continual lack of coverage!
Idaho: never saw a potato; funny little bushes sprouting up all over the ground; witnessed my first tumbleweed drifting across the highway- whoopee doo 😏 cell phone coverage a tease!
Oregon: finally a scenic wonder! Mountains, waterfalls, massive beautiful trees, sailing and I spotted a mall !! Mesmerized and had me searching for places to visit! Finally some phone service! I felt like I made it back to civilization. Only downfall Im not allowed to pump my own gas! Wtf??
Washington: so far seems to be a copy of Oregon. Much cooler than back home but gas prices here 😭😭
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♠Ƭϋʀғä♠ wrote:
Aww have fun and may her answer be yes!!! LolWish me luck - I'm planning on doing a small road trip with my girlfriend - to propose. Lol. Hopefully we'll come home engaged 😊
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I remember the first time I pulled up to a pump in Oregon, I hopped out to pump the gas and some guy jerked it out of my hand. I was like Dude! Back off. He then explained that I was too dumb and environmentally unconscious to pump my own gas because I might spill a few drops or something. Now I know back in Texas we usually just spray a few gallons on the concrete to help keep oil prices high (it's a George Bush thing, it's mandatory) but I'd never do that in someone else's state.
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Well maybe I would anyhow the guy had a chair he kept trying to go sit down in but since I was paying for his time through my higher fuel bill dammit he was gonna work, so I hung close to that fuel pump the whole time making feint actions at it to keep him honest. Yup. Showed him.
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