NEPA ~ Off Topic ~ Chatting Thread ( New ) (Carlisle, Jacksonville: averages, towns, exercise)

[PAhippo]

Originally Posted by fisheye

Here is one that I forget if it is the Badlands of SD or the Painted Desert in AZ?:

I've never seen the Painted Desert but have seen the Badlands. My vote for that photo would be Painted Desert.


hey, fisheye, you really have seen a lot of the USA. Still traveling or happy to stay home and look at your photos?

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

I've never seen the Painted Desert but have seen the Badlands. My vote for that photo would be Painted Desert.


hey, fisheye, you really have seen a lot of the USA. Still traveling or happy to stay home and look at your photos?

My wife is dying to get back. We traveled about 9,000 miles in about a month back in 2002. She wanted to see the Redwood forest. We did see some redwoods in Yosemite - but not the real monsters.

Bloomin wanted to take the RV out West. Although my wife loves the idea of going in an RV; I might be a little reluctant to go by RV only because of worrying about overheating. Many of the places we visited were one mile up and then a mile down. In some places the states had water buffalos set up to help motorist overheating.

There is a real system shock to Eastern motorist traveling through the West. There are no guardrails. You look at boulders hanging over your head or your looking down tremendous drop-offs - without protection. You are also thinking to yourself; I'm in earthquake country!

Because it was so hot when we did that trip the animals were coming into the outskirts of the cities for water. We spotted this one bull elk that the police were trying to shoo out of Flagstaff:

[PAhippo]

I'm not a desert person. Oceans and/or lakes please.



One of these days I want to get to Benezette to see the PA elk. Probably in the fall.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

I'm not a desert person. Oceans and/or lakes please.



One of these days I want to get to Benezette to see the PA elk. Probably in the fall.

Is this better?

[fisheye]

How about this:

[PAhippo]

Originally Posted by fisheye

Is this better?

okay-dumb question #8,345,931: what is that animal? looks too big to be a woodchuck, too small for a bear.


That next shot is awesome! Permission to use it as my background on my monitor? It'd replace the shot of Maine that's been there way too long.

[skook]

As soon as my wife retires. ( Won't be long) we will be out of here also can't take another winter like the one we just had I can take the cold I just can't take the bills that came along with it and these damn roads in pa are the worst I ever seen so good luck to ya.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

okay-dumb question #8,345,931: what is that animal? looks too big to be a woodchuck, too small for a bear.


That next shot is awesome! Permission to use it as my background on my monitor? It'd replace the shot of Maine that's been there way too long.

I think that it was a prairie dog. I believe that I was fairly close at the time I took the picture and that is why it looks larger.

Yes; feel free to use any of these pictures as background. That one was of the Grand Tetons. Here is one from Yosemite:

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by skook

As soon as my wife retires. ( Won't be long) we will be out of here also can't take another winter like the one we just had I can take the cold I just can't take the bills that came along with it and these damn roads in pa are the worst I ever seen so good luck to ya.

Actually I thought California made many PA roads look better! It was hard to sleep in the sleeper birth of a big truck in CA.

If your going for the roads you might want to check out Tennessee or Ohio.

Good luck with your (your wife's) retirement!

[jimazee]

Funny thing. NEPA weather has been very nice lately, and the contrast with the unusually rough winter made it seem even better.

FL is already regularly in the 90s (with nights in the mid to high 70s) and experiencing the 'rainy season'. Not all that nice there.