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Just a thread for fun. Imagine you're sitting at a bar and you pull out your state ID/drivers license to the bartender, or someone asks you what state you're from (and you reply).
I can only reference how I would react...knee jerk wise, and impressions gained over seven decades.
Here are a few fascinating positives on my list. I won't bore you with the negatives.
New Mexico -- Where I live and there are only a few of us. We are a rare breed in the wild.
Maryland -- I am fascinated by the Chesapeake Bay region. I like Baltimore.
Louisiana -- Food: Creole and Cajun and French and all that in a gumbo. And then there is music, too.
Oregon -- Never been there but want to go.
New York -- Contrasts of cultural urban mix and upstate sense of apartness. Hudson valley.
Wyoming -- had some very good experiences there long ago.
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Originally Posted by Matt Marcinkiewicz
For me personally, NM is the most fascinating state I've ever been to.
Yeah -- I fell in love with the place at ten on my first visit but couldn't convince my parents to move there. It took me six decades to finally settle in permanently. Life gets in the way.
Alaska fascinates me in that I don't understand how people can bear to live up there. It is easily one of the most picturesque states, but it seems so cold and cut-off. Guess I'm not that rugged.
I agree. I lived there (Anchorage) for two years in the 90’s. A somewhat big urban city surrounded by wilderness. Someone once said it is like someone planted Santa Ana, California in the middle of nowhere. Loved the beauty, the cool summer weather. Hated the early and late winters (October through early April). I was pleased to move back to the lower 48, but I only speak for myself as I know many love the climate.
]I was always joked if Arizona and Colorado had a kid, it would be called Utah! [/b]Southern Utah (topography-wise) reminds me of parts of Arizona and the mountains in Utah reminds me of some of the ones in Colorado.
]I was always joked if Arizona and Colorado had a kid, it would be called Utah! [/b]Southern Utah (topography-wise) reminds me of parts of Arizona and the mountains in Utah reminds me of some of the ones in Colorado.
That is pretty funny!! Thanks.
Wyoming is remote?? The next door neighbor is Nebraska.
Not sure what's so exciting about PA, or for that matter CA or TX. Usually these big states originate a lot of car and tourist volume across the country. Rental cars also often have those plates.
It's more exciting for me to see an Idaho or Alaska plate and have someone tell me they are from there TBH.
If you drive a lomg time on an Interstate, it seems like the plates you see least frequently are Louisiana and New Hampshire. You see a lot more Vermonts than New Hampsshires. Oh, Delawares are very rare, too.
Not sure what's so exciting about PA, or for that matter CA or TX. Usually these big states originate a lot of car and tourist volume across the country. Rental cars also often have those plates.
It's more exciting for me to see an Idaho or Alaska plate and have someone tell me they are from there TBH.
Central PA is interesting to me with small factory towns, mountains, rural areas. I like it
CA is geographically the prettiest state that I've been to, then you add in LA... Impossible to beat.
Hawaii does the same thing to me I'm so fascinated by the people who chose to live in such an isolated place.
'm fascinated by the fact anyone ever found the Island chain before big ships or air travel was possible. Its 2000 miles from the US Mainland. Its 5 hours to Bora Bora, so also bout 2,000 miles away.
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