Re: I also found that KS Turnpike remarkably simple to use.
Nate Send a noteboard - 04/06/2012 04:33:40 PM
You continue making WY and MT sound as horrid as I always imagined, by the way. 
If the only difference between them and the Great Plains proper is being flat brown and black rock instead of flat brown and green fields, neither appeals to me much.
If the only difference between them and the Great Plains proper is being flat brown and black rock instead of flat brown and green fields, neither appeals to me much.Wait until I hit New Mexico. I didn't know what desolate was yet at this point in the narrative.
Just so you know, the part of OK we always avoided is widely known for hilly terrain leading to Arkansas' nearby Ozarks. You just happened to get the flat part of OK, where tornadoes plow unobstructed along the ground instead of hopping from hilltop to hilltop.
My original plan from a year ago was to travel through the Ozarks, which would have been neat, but alas it was not to be.
I somehow got the idea you came down through the Panhandle, but it sounds like you stayed on I-35 through DFW and past my moms house north of Austin (either that, or you swung a hard unnecessary right to I-40, but that makes no sense if you meant to reach the coast the next day.) I felt OKC fairly metropolitan (I even briefly thought I had managed to get lost,) but I went through just before midnight on a hurried half-day trip from Austin to Topeka. Here is hoping the construction I found on most of I-35 through OK (and north of DFW) was gone by the time you got there; its total absence was easily my favorite aspect of the Kansas Turnpike. 
Yeah, I went through Forth Worth and Austin on the way down, then took the panhandle route on the way back north, so I got to see it all (except I didn't have time to actually visit that far-eastern Texas you talk about, unfortunately). I don't even recall if I hit construction or not. I know there was a lot of it in Arizona, but I don't remember if there was much in Texas. I'm sure there must have been a little, but thinking on it, I believe it was mostly between Forth Worth and Austin. Which was a horrid stretch of highway, as I'll relate in the next part.
Looking forward to reading the rest, as you approach territory I know far better. I hope you at least briefly managed to visit the Piney Woods and bayous of south East Texas, the best part of the state. Honestly, I could cheerfully take that, the coast and the Rio Grande Valley and leave the rest. Of course, that would eliminate the ability to say TX has every terrestrial climate except tundra (which is hardly missed, as you surely understand.)
I don't know how you can even call yourself a state if you don't have tundra.
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- 03/06/2012 09:06:46 PM
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I also found that KS Turnpike remarkably simple to use.
- 04/06/2012 02:46:28 AM
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Re: I also found that KS Turnpike remarkably simple to use.
- 04/06/2012 04:33:40 PM
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Kansas
- 04/06/2012 03:44:46 PM
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Wikipedia claims the KS Turnpikes N/S sections are closer than interstate regs require.
- 04/06/2012 08:08:20 PM
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i love your continual references references to boring wyoming... i drove through there once.
- 04/06/2012 05:04:05 PM
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I'm glad that you didn't get abducted by crazy computer/cyborg boy.
- 05/06/2012 04:49:09 PM
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I really hate driving through Nebraska, and Kansas.
- 07/06/2012 10:05:07 PM
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Yeah, except for Kansas City, Kansas. *NM*
- 08/06/2012 04:22:36 PM
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Just joshin', bro.
- 09/06/2012 04:12:33 PM
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Oh, I don't care if you insult it, as long as your facts are correct. *NM*
- 11/06/2012 04:10:07 PM
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