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Paul

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You left coasters always bragging about your mountains. Next time you open a box of corn flakes. This is where it came from.
My in-laws came to visit in October and all my mother in law could say is wow it's so green. She lives near Great Falls, MT. Where everything is a shade of brown by mid June.
 

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They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, call me Deacon Blue... oops, that's Steely Dan.... 😁

They call California the Golden State, either from the 1849 gold rush or the color of the hills after April... yeah, CA is a desert state & the water collection/distribution systems are the suck.
 
I just returned from driving from Chicago to Plain, Washington and back across IL, WI, MN, SD, a tiny bit of WY, MT, ID & WA. Having grown up in MT and SD and traveling back and forth dozens of times to visit family, I have to say Eastern MT and all of SD were amazingly green...probably the greenest I've ever seen it at the end of June. Really amazing.

I think of MT & SD as brown, brown, brown, but they weren't this year!
 
Paul said:
You left coasters always bragging about your mountains. Next time you open a box of corn flakes. This is where it came from.
My in-laws came to visit in October and all my mother in law could say is wow it's so green. She lives near Great Falls, MT. Where everything is a shade of brown by mid June.
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Next time you open a bottle of wine, California is where it probably came from, so there's that, which is nice.
 
@Paul I had the privilege to live for a few years where America was quite flat, and quite beautiful.
Of particular memory was one evening, watching the sun settle over a billion acres that feed a nation. That sunset has never left my mind.
While I prefer the contrast of mountains and oceans, riding cross country and watching the change in landscape, architecture, infrastructure as one moves East or West, I remain humbled.
Every time.
Can't wait to do that trip again.
 
You're talking about the Great Inland Empire, ain'tcha?? Drove thru some of that in '88 on I-90 in the summer. Didn't get a T-shirt, coffee cup or ballcap, did stop by Wall Drug and Devil's Tower & the Badlands. (y)(y)
 
Yep, lots of openness there! I think the most open road, with almost no gravel roads off of it, no buildings for dozens and dozens of miles, no anything was on hwy 78 between Burns, Washington to the intersection of hwy 78 and hwy 95 (map).
 
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