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50 Stars: Americans, teach us about your country.

There is a comparative table of state shorelines on the Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality's site that gives the measurements for states touching the Great Lakes. See http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3677-15959--,00.html World Book Encyclopedia (v.13, p.500 of the 2000 edition) states that Michigan's shoreline, at 3,288 miles is "more than any other state except Alaska. This includes 1,056 miles (1,699 kilometers) of island shoreline." In v.1 (p.284 and 294) of the same edition it states that Alaska has 6,640 miles or 10,686 kilometers of coastline.
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edit: wow, its apparently the longest freshwater coastline in the world.

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A few things I have learned after taking a two-and-a-half-month road trip across the country and back:

People drive too slow in the west, too aggressively in the north, and too blindly in the south
Chicago is hiding something
Central Park on a Sunday afternoon is a wondrous sight, especially the roller disco
California has more geographical variety than the other contiguous 47 combined
New Jersey is America's armpit
Everyone who lives north of NYC and west of Boston are actually Canadians
Portland, Oregon is a city like no other
People get much more friendly as you leave the south (it's disconcerting at first! lol)
A redwood grove is a sure cure for cynicism
Camping has turned into a tourist industry centered around RVs/trailers/caravans
Everything costs twice as much northeast of Virginia
Every child owns a Wii, and many lie to their parents in order to spend all day playing it
The sunsets are phenomenal no matter where you go
The west is the best
 
HoneyRoastedPeanut said:
People drive too slow in the west, too aggressively in the north, and too blindly in the south
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did you not go to the same south where i used to live? "polite armed society." texas, tennessee and northern louisiana has some of the best drivers, imo.
Portland, Oregon is a city like no other
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it's okay, so far

People get much more friendly as you leave the south (it's disconcerting at first! lol)
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once again, that is certainly not the south i was raised in..i've only experienced the exact opposite. when i took my denver buddies to NOLA they said the same thing.
"everyone is so nice! why does everyone in denver seem to have a stick up their ass?" did you wear a shirt that said something like YANKEES RULE or something?

The west is the best
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once again, i disagree ;)
 
ninjadanslarbretabar said:
detroit airport is pretty trippy n cool

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detroit airports look like the game 'N20' for playstation. anyone remember that game?
 
Kenickie said:
once again, i disagree
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I guess chalk it up to different perspectives. I've grown up in Florida most of my life and spent time to TN, NC, SC, GA and a little in TX, and while I think you are right on about polite, none of these states have ever really struck me as friendly. BY contrast, out west people are a bit less polite, perhaps, but so much more open-minded with strangers. The south is great if you are in the bubble comprised of Bible-thumping Baptist and the politically conservative, but outside of that it's a cold wilderness. :\

Oh, and PepperSocks, I certainly didn't mean for it to sound that way; I found it quite charming actually and not at all what I expected! It really irked me not to be able to include Canada in my trip as well, especially once we were at Niagara Falls, but my tripping buddy had lost his passport. C'est la vie! :)
 
ohio, this thread needs more ohio ;)

i really don't know anything interesting about colorado other than its full of ski destinations.
 
uhm colorado is home to FoCo, which has the most breweries per capita

'decriminalized marijuana' in denver

NORAD in the boonies

the longest street in america - Colfax

and uhhhhhh

was once home to Hunter S. Thompson.
 
^are you sure about the longest street? i have heard many different areas claim they have the longest street and a google search isn't being too helpful.
 
wika wikia said:
Colloquially, the arterial is referred to simply as "Colfax", a name that has become associated with prostitution, crime, and a dense concentration of liquor stores and inexpensive bars. Playboy magazine once called Colfax "the longest, wickedest street in America." However, such activities are actually isolated to short stretches of the 26-mile (42 km) length of the street.
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some dude said:
Some of the longest city streets in the world are in LA, Sepulveda Boulevard being the very longest in the world at 43 miles. Many other claims have been made, some also in LA. The prostitution and drug-dealer-wrought Colfax Avenue in Denver is only 23 miles. Playboy magazine called Colfax "the longest, wickedest street in America," but they're wrong about longest. The Guinness Book of World Records listed Yonge Street in Ontario, Canada, as the longest street in the world at 1178 miles. Sounds more like a country road to me.
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so, it's the longest street worth going down the entire way.
 
how much of that in LA is freeway?

colfax is all city street.

i didn't know these.

In Fruita, the town folk celebrate 'Mike the Headless Chicken Day." Seems that a farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off Mike's head on September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken dinner - and Mike lived for another 4 years without a head.

Denver, lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger. The trademark for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded in 1935 to Louis Ballast.
 
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