On 9/9/2011 2:29 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:14 PM, "Moose"<olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> The more I travel, and the more to lesser known places, the more I come
>> to believe there is great natural beauty pretty
>> much everywhere not covered with cities, and even quite a bit in some of
>> those places.
> Does this mean you are no longer willing to disparage the midwest on
> your usual basis of nothing? Good lord, I've been away too long and hell
> may have frozen over.
Nope, at least not entirely. Oddly enough, I have spent some time in a few
parts of the Midwest. Nope, it's not flat,
but the variations are quite modest. There are certainly lovely natural areas.
They do, however tend to only cover a
fairly narrow range of diversity. And man, it's a long way to something really
different. :-)
> My recent motorcycle trip involved a day of riding hard across Kansas
> (not to mention eastern Colorado) on I-70, both coming and going.
I repeat "man, it's a long way to something really different."
> I loved it. Kansas is gorgeous, and not flat (when people say "flat" they
> seem to mean the roads are straight -- and the roads are straight, I'll
> give you that). The flattest place I got to was just east of Denver,
> but not Kansas.
It's relative. For those of us who are used to everything from ranges of hills,
like the one I live at 1,000' on, to
fairly substantial mountain ranges, to serious mountains, Kansas looks flat.
Large parts of our central valley, which is
larger than some states, also roll, (and have straight roads) but they look
flat between the other stuff.
Compared to the diversity of terrain, geology, weather and vegetation in just
the small part of our north coast that
I've been posting images of lately, the Midwest is pretty limited in variety.
> But it was a lot more fun riding a motorcycle in the mountains where you
> get to use all the parts of your tires.
Expand from motorcycle riding to other forms of travel, camping, hiking and
photography, and you make my point.
We still expect to get around to the cross country Turtle* trip, which would
involve more intimate exposure to the
Midwest. Might even make it to Iowa, although Carol swore never again after
passing through on her way from Maine to
California some years ago. What's the name for fear of cornfields? Maizeophobia?
Varietal Moose
* Oh yeah, you haven't been around for a while. This is the Turtle.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Calif/Miscellaneous/_MG_2665-6.htm>
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