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Driving across Oklahoma is like driving across an
airport tarmac. Man there's a lot of flat, empty space out there. I had this nagging anxiety about the world becoming overcrowded. It's all gone; there's plenty of room out here. Oct 27 14 04:46 pm Link I read somewhere that if you fit the population of the world in apartments like NYC does you could fit everyone in the state of Texas. That's what I never understood about the logic of Walking Dead. "Um, guys go to Oklahoma, North Dakota, or Montana. The odds of you being in contact with a zombie are like once a year, if that." Oct 27 14 04:54 pm Link I have driven across several of those states myself. You're right. Oct 27 14 05:04 pm Link That's the same as Texas. I'm never driving through Texas ever again! Mill never forget that cross country drive... There was so much of nothing! Funny how that works. Oct 27 14 05:52 pm Link the only place I had that feeling was through the Mancha,Spain but I was looking out for windmills Oct 27 14 06:24 pm Link The wind farms were interesting to see, though. Tomorrow will be Petrified Forest National Park. Oct 27 14 07:17 pm Link Lawrence Guy wrote: Sounds like Suffolk/Norfolk in the UK. Oct 27 14 07:33 pm Link You drove across Oklahoma...when? And you didn't let me know you were close...why?  Oct 27 14 07:49 pm Link Lawrence Guy wrote: Watch out for the cop that is on either side of Holbrook (east or west side of town) Faked lying stops - of out of state cars. Oct 27 14 09:37 pm Link Model Sarah wrote: They just approved a spinoff for WD that will be in a different setting with a unique cast of characters. Although the show would be **really boring** if set in North Dakota, you never know. Oct 28 14 02:53 am Link - Phil H - wrote: ROTFLMFFAO! Oct 28 14 07:37 am Link Robb Mann wrote: I dunno if I'll watch the spin off. Oct 28 14 07:55 am Link The world is both overcrowded and full of vast, empty or sparsely populated spaces at the same time. The reason being that most of those vast, empty spaces are very inhospitable to us puny humans; Too hot. To dry. Too wet. Too cold. Too little food. Too little drinking water... The toos have it.  Our Goldilocks zone is not big enough for all 7 billion of us infecting the surface of Earth.Oct 28 14 12:43 pm Link DivaEroticus wrote: This. Oct 28 14 12:56 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: I actually love driving through Texas. Yes, it takes a day to drive clean across, but it's beautiful. It's not all flat like everyone thinks. Oct 28 14 12:59 pm Link Nicolette wrote: Never got that Texas was so small Oct 28 14 01:37 pm Link scrymettet wrote: That's why I chuckled at our beloved mod Phil. Crap, some of our states are larger than his entire country, to wit: Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, Wyoming and Michigan. Oct 28 14 01:50 pm Link Lohkee wrote: I have 5 hours to the West and 14 hours to the East to cross Québec province Oct 28 14 04:04 pm Link Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I did not plan stops across the country to visit some of my favorite people. I can only plead the need for speed. I've kept my job in New York and am moving to San Diego. Unfortunately, I've used up all of my paid time off for the year, so this trip is expensive in that it's missed work. I decided to do the trip as fast as I reasonably could, stopping only at Petrified Forest National Park for three hours and Meteor Crater for one hour as my only sightseeing destinations. (Did Petrified Forest today; tomorrow is the crater.) There were a number of people I would have liked to stop and see, but doing so would have meant zigzagging around the southwest and would have added too much time to the trip. I need to get to San Diego, find a house, and get back on the internet in order to start getting *paid* again. I do love you peeps, and I regret that I couldn't plan a more leisurely trip. All I can say is that one of the last things my CEO said to me on Friday was "this is a pretty bad time for you to be out of touch." No pressure or anything. :hugs: EDIT: I'm writing this from Winslow, AZ. I only have three women on my mind, though. Oct 28 14 06:42 pm Link I drove from New Mexico to Ohio and back, and the most boring stretch was definitely from NM to Oklahoma. I have a friend from Ohio who just moved to Waco, Texas, and she was shocked to find out that we're about 10 hours apart. States are a lot bigger out here! Oct 29 14 07:28 am Link scrymettet wrote: When I drove cross country I felt like we were driving through Texas for at least 2 days of it. Oct 29 14 08:24 am Link Lawrence Guy wrote: ...Armadillo wrapped in several pages of the New Testament." Oct 29 14 01:02 pm Link Think about the distance from Beaumont, TX to El Paso, TX. If you try to drive the same number of miles EAST from Beaumont, you will cross LA, MS, AL, FL and hit the Atlantic Ocean before you drive all the miles. The approx. halfway point between Beaumont, TX and Los Angeles, CA is El Paso, TX. Oct 29 14 02:00 pm Link Well, I made it to San Diego and managed to avoid seeing all the people I love. I really need to get my head examined. Again. Oct 29 14 06:08 pm Link I did the southern cross country twice several years ago. Highway hypnosis is a thing. So much flat empty desert highway. Oct 29 14 06:44 pm Link |
