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50 Stars: Americans, teach us about your country.

ocean said:
Utah!!!!!!
We can do Alabama after Utah ;)


I've only been through Utah once and it was gorgeous.
I'm interested to hear what others think of it.......
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When I was in my teens my parents sent me to a 'wilderness therapy program' in the high desert of Utah. I lived with a group out out in the wilderness (complete wilderness), with just a backpack, a fire making kit, food (that got driven in once a week), some clothes, and a tarp for shelter. It was the most beautiful (non -coastal ;)) place I have ever been to in America for sure.

The societal life in Utah is anything but beautiful. As most of the world knows, its mormon country. Its one of the few states in the U.S. where you're actually able to find polygamist communities still thriving (illegally). Southern Utah is very fundamentalist mormon.

ThaiDie4 said:
People do not pump their own gas in New Jersey, apperently???

My old roomate was from Jersey and I had to teach her how to fill up her tank :) (we are in VA) it was kinda funny.
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Or oregon. I think its actually required. I mean I'm sure you could, with a bunch of convincing, get them to let you pump your gas but I'm fairly certain they are not supposed to let you. They say a big reason for having it this way is to create more jobs.
 
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What a timely bump!

I just came back from a train trip that spanned the distance between the bay area and Chicago, and let me tell you, I am in awe.

America is definitely one of my favourite places to travel (granted I could afford the fortune it takes to do so). A fascinatingly beautiful country, whose people are exceptionally warm and interestingly varied - so long as they have not yet caught the disease of paranoia currently plaguing that part of the world...

I am particularly mesmerized by Utah and Colorado (or more accurately, eastern Utah and western Colorado), and intend to go back soon with more time on my hands to do some outdoorsy stuff there :).

Keep this thread going ;).
 
Jamshyd said:
What a timely bump!

I just came back from a train trip that spanned the distance between the bay area and Chicago, and let me tell you, I am in awe.

America is definitely one of my favourite places to travel (granted I could afford the fortune it takes to do so). A fascinatingly beautiful country, whose people are exceptionally warm and interestingly varied - so long as they have not yet caught the disease of paranoia currently plaguing that part of the world...

I am particularly mesmerized by Utah and Colorado (or more accurately, eastern Utah and western Colorado), and intend to go back soon with more time on my hands to do some outdoorsy stuff there :).

Keep this thread going ;).
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Isn't Utah just amazing?
Did you get to check out the Moab area, the Cayonlands (where 127 hours was filmed), and/or Zion?

Heres some Utah Eye-Candy:

NSFW:
Zion:
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Canyonlands:
(The park in which Aron Ralston got trapped and amputated his arm with a pocket knife)
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Moab:
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But this

NSFW:
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Is the part of Utah where I backpacked / lived. So vastly different, it has beautiful aspen groves and pine forests and sage fields – the high desert.
 
Not exactly 'history', but Alabama just banned MDPV and Mephedrone. That and they have lots of farms. And that just about sums up my knowledge of Alabama :D
 
Arizona... Last of the 48 contigeous states to enter the union, entered on valentines day too. Plenty of recreation as well (if you know where to look). Some of the least restrictive gun laws :) az does its part to uphold the Second.. It's hot in the summer, cold in the winter. Cost of living is relatively cheap compared to its neighbor to the west... Overall great state.... Stay away from Kingman!
 
ocean said:
Come on Guys!!
No one likes Alabama?!?!?! ;)
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Actually I don't think so, no. ;)

thizzleman138 said:
Arizona... Last of the 48 contigeous states to enter the union, entered on valentines day too. Plenty of recreation as well (if you know where to look). Some of the least restrictive gun laws :) az does its part to uphold the Second.. It's hot in the summer, cold in the winter. Cost of living is relatively cheap compared to its neighbor to the west... Overall great state.... Stay away from Kingman!
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Arizona is down-right mental. Just recently they had that deal with the obviously deranged shooter killing the US senate member. And there general response seems... "We need more guns!".

Video: Colbert Breaks Down Insane Arizona Gun Law Proposed By Senator Ron Gould

"Gould's bill would make it legal for a person who does not know if they have a gun to go into the sheriff's office, tell them you don't have a gun, then sue the department, then car jack the sheriff's cruiser and drive down the main streen firing out of the roof as long as that person does not understand that bullets can hurt people"
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1 Alabama
2 Alaska
3 Arizona
4 Arkansas
5 California
6 Colorado
7 Connecticut
8 Delaware
9 Florida
10 Georgia
11 Hawaii
12 Idaho
13 Illinois
14 Indiana
15 Iowa
16 Kansas
17 Kentucky
18 Louisiana
19 Maine
20 Maryland
21 Massachusetts
22 Michigan
23 Minnesota
24 Mississippi
25 Missouri
26 Montana
27 Nebraska
28 Nevada
29 New Hampshire
30 New Jersey
31 New Mexico
32 New York
33 North Carolina
34 North Dakota
35 Ohio
36 Oklahoma
37 Oregon
38 Pennsylvania
39 Rhode Island
40 South Carolina
41 South Dakota
42 Tennessee
43 Texas
44 Utah
45 Vermont
46 Virginia
47 Washington
48 West Virginia
49 Wisconsin
50 Wyoming

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So O guess we have moved on to ARIZONA :)
 
I have a good friend who is from Arizona. Her father has a farm there. YES a FARM in Arizona, haha. He grows grass (alfalfa) and is basically begging his kids to hold onto the land for the water rights. Basically, the estimates are the state-owned land will run out of water and all the privately owned land will be gold to the state for the water tables under it. That's all I got. :)
 
TUCSON AZ: It's very HOT here in the summer, nice winters. Eat potassium if U plan to sweat. It gets soooo HOT, not many ppl can be seen outdoors in the afternoon. We don't have daylight savings time in AZ. Ppl get up very early to work outdoors. Construction workers are finished by 2pm, having started work at 6am.

Seems like 20-percent of Tucson's population leaves during the summer (includes University students).

35-miles from downtown, U can drive to Summerhaven in the Santa Catalina mountains where the temp is 20-degrees cooler (F) and there are 800-year-old Fir trees.

Bark beetles have destroyed many trees in the forests here . . . we had a huge fire a few years ago that destroyed at least half of Summerhaven. George Bush came to Tucson/Summerhaven to survey the damage.
 
Honestly, I love Tucson. I've lived here all my life.. Hell yeah, it gets HOT, especially during the summer. More often than not, it gets to be over 100 degrees. I think it was 110F outside at one point... Lots of homeless people, gangs, violence, drugs, etc., in Southern Tucson, and rich famous people living in the Northeast. Lol

Phoenix is the 5th (or 9th?) largest US capital city (I think, don't quote me on this though)

Arizona in general, it's alright. there are caverns and caves and mountains and cactus and forests everywhere.

Being here, you're close to California, a cheap vacation (or an early death) in Mexico, Gambling and raging in Vegas, and the beautiful mountains of New Mexico.

thats pretty much all I've got to say :P
 
ektamine said:
When I was in my teens my parents sent me to a 'wilderness therapy program' in the high desert of Utah. I lived with a group out out in the wilderness (complete wilderness), with just a backpack, a fire making kit, food (that got driven in once a week), some clothes, and a tarp for shelter. It was the most beautiful (non -coastal ;)) place I have ever been to in America for sure.
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Ah, wilderness programs. I was never sent to a wilderness program but I was taken in the night by two escorts to a rehab/reform school in Nowhere, Vermont at the ripe age of 17. Lots of the girls there had been through wilderness programs prior to that so I heard all about their experiences. Most of them went to a program in Utah.

As far as Alabama goes, it's a great state. The notion that people there are stupid is silly. In fact, this whole theory that the south is full of racist idiots is pretty insulting to me because there are racist idiots EVERYWHERE in the U.S. It's not just a southern thing, dammit :P

Besides, I'm from the south and I'm not stupid or racist. I don't screw my cousins either =)

But yeah, my dad and step-mom have a few places in Auburn, Orange Beach, and Lake Martin (all in AL). Lake Martin is freaking beautiful despite being in central/south central AL where it's pretty flat and boring. It's one of the top three largest man-made lakes in the U.S. Orange Beach is obviously nice because it's on the gulf and only 30 minutes from Pensacola. As far as northern AL goes, mountains start appearing and they're beautiful.
 
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