undercover

Thanks for the reply Starbuck! You sure do know your stuff! To be honest, I think I'd actually head towards Nashville next.

 

I went to Dallas back in the 90's...stood at the grassy knoll of course..I thought it was hot that day ...and it was february lol


Welcome to here

 

Yeah, I live in Lakewood. Cycling & walking around White Rock is pretty cool. Parts of Dallas are fine. Surviving the heat is the biggest problem.

So what is your favorite city?

I lived in Arizona, near the California border, a couple of decades ago. Love San Diego. Like Santa Barbara even more. LA stinks and is too crowded. Northern California pretty nice too.

 

I like the woods...or the mountains. i would say somewhere in colorado. or northern minnesota.

 

The happiest time in my life was when my parents sent my brother and me to a outdoor survival course taught in the Wind River mountain range near Lander, Wyoming. 6 weeks up in the mountains, July and August, learning how to rope climb, rappel, exist with the environment, etc. Middle of summer and we were walking on glaciers and wearing multiple layers of wool. First 3 days I hated it, at the end, didn't want to come back to Dallas.

Got on the plane in Lander in nice cool weather, landed in Dallas to an inferno. And let me tell you, Dallas air stinks. Bad. We get used to it breathing it every day, but when I exited that plane it was nauseating.

My brother, the smart one, now lives in Albuquerque and owns a little patch of land up in the Colorado mountains. I'm getting that itch to go visit.

 

i know what you mean about thes stinky air. I get that way when i go to visit my father in northern minnesota. I get off the plain and its sufficating.

 

It was like that when me and the twin got off the plane last September at TPA, a.k.a. Tampa International Airport. Nothing but constant high humidity for the whole 3 1/2 days we were there.

 

i like how you refer to him as "the twin"

 

Yes, I have to do it that way. Last I heard, he was stuck on a train, 5 miles out from Penn Station, trying to head over to the Rockies vs Mets baseball game at CitiField.

P.S. That is a strange, but cool signature pic you've got there!

 

I drove across Texas in one lick when I was younger and my odometer indicated that I put 998 miles on that stretch of hell. West Texas was hot and virtually empty. Then another time coming across,I got snowed in for a day in Van Horn. Quite a state. Anway,welcome back.

 

yeah i went up to rhode island and we drove from the top of the state to the bottom and it took us like an hour and 45 minutes. You try to do that in texas and you'll be driving 14 hours. insane!

 

welcome

 

Having grown up in and driven much of the west and southwest,I can't imagine going from state to state in such short times as is evidently possible in the northeast. Man ,we have room to move out here.

 

It sounds like you drove along I-95 in Rhode Island. Only 43 miles south and west from Pawtucket to Hopkinton. Go north and you're in Attleborough, MA. Go south and you're in North Stonington, CT. That's what makes travel fun in the northeast. Our states are smaller!

 

I have been told that the entire ocean front is developed along the eastern seaboard from top to bottom. I haven't been there (except Florida)so I don't know if it's true or not. Here you can drive the coast from California to BC and there are miles and miles and miles of nothing but forests and mountains. I always felt weird driving along the ocean in Florida--I felt north was south and south was north.

 

everything is bigger in TEXAS!

 

Over-development? Yep! New Jersey has the most people per square mile than any other state. It helps that you're a giant suburb of either New York City or Philadelphia! We've "only" got 3.5 million people here in Connecticut, but we've only got 8 counties and about 5,000 square miles to play with. The New Haven to New York portion of I-95 is one of the most heavily traveled sections of interstate in the country.

So Undercover, is there any part of Texas you've been in which wasn't crowded and/or had bad air?

 

Pin a map of Texas on the wall, throw a dart, where it lands there is 99.99% chance of NOT being crowded or polluted. Only Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, possibly El Paso are crowded and polluted.

Walk the beaches of South Padre, hike in the hill country, camp out in the piney woods of East Texas. It's all good. We may complain about Dallas, but in truth this state is very diverse and there is a lot of good country just an hour drive, or less, out of any of the major metro areas. Add to that the economy here is still blazing, the people are, for the most part, friendly and I'll take Texas over just about any other place in the U.S.

Yeah, yeah, I know ... the question was directed to undercover, but I couldn't resist!

 

Well you live in Texas apparently, so it's all good! Like I told her, I've never been to that state. Thanks for your input though!

 

everyone should have something to say this is a forum!!!