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>maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts? You mean the entire Midwest?
by chez17 14y ago
>maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts?
You mean the entire Midwest?
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- umsm 14y agoBeing from the midwest, I agree :)
- tegansnyder 14y agoMidwest is where its at
- Taylorious 14y agoThe only boring parts are the parts below Michigan/Chicago, particularly Indiana... it's basically one giant field.
- andyking 14y agoI really enjoyed my time with my ex-partner in rural Indiana. Perhaps because it's just so different to anything we have here in Britain. Cities are largely the same wherever you go - London, Chicago, Sydney - they are all big towers, shops, bars, metro, money flowing around, and so on. It's when you get out into the country that you get a real flavour of a place.
- kefka 14y agoYou're right: upper Indiana is boring. Now, try southern Indiana, around Nashville and Bloomington. It's like a small slice of California, with the rolling hills, pine trees, scenic routes, huge lakes, and awesome liberal atmosphere (home of IU). I'm so glad I'm here, and not elsewhere in Indiana.
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- jlgreco 14y agoGoing east and west across North Dakota is pretty damn boring.
- nealabq 14y agoGet off the interstate and notice the details. Lots of beautiful.
- pasbesoin 14y agoMy father is a... "maphead"; he spends considerable time exploring territory via resources before (and after) he actually gets there. As a result, he'll often know of "parallel" routes -- or sometimes, routes that are actually more direct than the Interstate. In exchange perhaps for a bit of time and a few stops signs, lights, and towns, he'll take a route that is ten times as scenic. If you've never seen Iowa in the fall in afternoon sunlight, you don't know what you're missing. Or winter, for that matter, with the whites, browns, and infinite blue sky. Spring, with the new growth dusting black soil with green. Summer in its extravagance of growth. Sit down at the counter of a local diner, next to a farmer. You may not agree with all his opinions, but you'll find someone at least as informed and mindful of the news as any urbanite you're likely to meet. Small town life can sometimes be stifling, socially. And in the midwest, it's been significantly hollowed out particularly of youth, by ongoing socio-economic changes. But if you're looking, and if you're not -- socially -- stuck there indefinitely, it's not necessarily "boring".
- gcb0 14y agoas someone who traveled a lot by parallel smaller roads recently, i can tell you, the worst problem is that those roads are one or two lanes, full of huge trucks going on at crazy speeds, and often passing each other (even on the one lanes)
- pasbesoin 14y agoI think that is something that has changed. More trucks, and more truck drivers who drive like they're driving a car.
- rdouble 14y agoYou and Garrison Keillor may disagree, but I can assure you, it's boring.