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re: Does Anyone Else Get Freaked Out By The High Plains And Certain Deserts Here In The U.S.?
Posted on 9/7/26 at 6:25 am to TheLSUDynasty
Posted on 9/7/26 at 6:25 am to TheLSUDynasty
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I could break down on a road, find a creek, find a squirrel or deer to kill or something to eat, heck I could survive easily 4 or 5 days. You break down out west, you really aren't surviving it more than a day or two.
How damn long is gonna take the tow truck to get there after you call it on your cell phone?
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Posted on 9/7/26 at 6:25 am to Eightballjacket
Posted on 9/7/26 at 7:36 am to TheLSUDynasty
First real taste was driving from Vegas to Mammoth Lake, Ca but not using the interstate. I found it very relaxing g and we stopped at a few wide spots. I got out and just admired the quiet. My wife found it unnerving.
She’s grown to love the open west many years later.
She’s grown to love the open west many years later.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 7:50 am to TheLSUDynasty
I know exactly what you mean. I lived in Wyoming for a couple years and would often go out on the high plains right outside of town to throw the ball for my dog. The wind seemed to blow steady, at least 30 miles an hour, nonstop.I would get this eerie feeling like I could be plucked off the face of the Earth and no one would ever know. I would get a more realistic feeling of, if I broke my ankle out here I’d be in a pretty bad spot. When I would come home to Louisiana, I was shocked at how green everything was, and I developed a much deeper affinity for trees than I ever had before. I still think the west is beautiful, but I no longer want to live there. And that’s not even touching on the winters.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:05 am to Jubalie Moe
I’ve made that drive to Kemmerer from Salt Lake … vast wilderness of the high desert
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:20 am to Jubalie Moe
Drove to Jackson Hole once. Southern Wyoming felt like being on Mars.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:29 am to TheLSUDynasty
We pulled our travel trailer from Florida to San Diego this summer. We followed along Route 66 all the way to Flagstaff. Then, we went to Palm Springs, CA and then to San Diego. We took I-10 on the way home. The dessert drives were pretty rough when pulling a camper. The extreme heat and upgrades and downgrades were something I had not experienced when pulling a camper before. Phoenix to Palm Springs and Tucson to Fort Stockton, TX were desolate for long stretches.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:33 am to 12
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:36 am to StringedInstruments
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If I break down and have to rough it in the middle of Alabama, there’s a stream nearby, game in the forest, and timber to be used.
Yeah, cause that’ll be necessary
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:46 am to TheLSUDynasty
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Does Anyone Else Get Freaked Out By The High Plains And Certain Deserts Here In The U.S.?
You can always look forward to Wall Drug is passing through the badlands of South Dakota.
IYKYK
This post was edited on 9/7/26 at 8:56 am
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:47 am to TheLSUDynasty
I like seeing stuff other than endless line trees. That drive from Houston to Tallahasse is bring but.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:51 am to 12
There’s some areas that just have a strange energy to them. I’m sure it’s just being in an other-worldly environment but being in Arches NP when a storm was brewing and the air went cold. Lightning in the distance.
The area approaching Palm Springs from Kingman Az was strange.
The area from Palm Springs south around the Salton Sea is strange.
Spending the night in Mesa Verde was strange.
I suppose it’s mostly that vast isolation but some areas “feel” different
The area approaching Palm Springs from Kingman Az was strange.
The area from Palm Springs south around the Salton Sea is strange.
Spending the night in Mesa Verde was strange.
I suppose it’s mostly that vast isolation but some areas “feel” different
This post was edited on 9/7/26 at 8:55 am
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:55 am to Great Plains Drifter
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I feel right at home.
I mean you're from Nebraska, I get it. I think it's mostly what you're used to. Ironically it's the person I know from Nebraska who said they felt very claustrophobic driving in the south, being surrounded by trees. They said it felt weird to them not being able to see the sky for miles. So I guess it's what you grew up with.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:56 am to TheLSUDynasty
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I'm from the south so of course I'm used to tons of pine trees in the deep south, long bridges across swamps and bayous with plenty to look at and mountains where you can clearly see how quickly you are approaching or driving away from the mountains.
Same. I was born in, and lived most of my life in rural and small town north Alabama.
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But like what about driving in the high plains of Kansas, Nebraska or Colorado. Where literally the sky seems endless and you have no markers for anything on the interstate outside of mile markers. Or places like Death Valley where you can see a mountain, travel 25 miles on a desert road, and be no closer to that mountain.
What you described here is why I absolutely love driving out west. It’s absolutely beautiful.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:56 am to TheLSUDynasty
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Does Anyone Else Get Freaked Out By The High Plains And Certain Deserts Here In The U.S.?
Wow. You’re a huge pansy.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:56 am to TheLSUDynasty
I don't mind the desert and plains driving. But driving those 14k mountain passes in Colorado gives me the butt puckers and sweaty palms.
If you ever get a chance to drive the 395 on the east side of the Sierrra Nevada mountains it's an amazing drive. At one point you have the highest point in the continental USA 40 miles to your west and the lowest point in the USA about 40 miles to your east. It's pretty interesting the highest and lowest points in the US are so close together. One point can be near freezing while the other hits 120 degrees separated by just 85 miles.
If you ever get a chance to drive the 395 on the east side of the Sierrra Nevada mountains it's an amazing drive. At one point you have the highest point in the continental USA 40 miles to your west and the lowest point in the USA about 40 miles to your east. It's pretty interesting the highest and lowest points in the US are so close together. One point can be near freezing while the other hits 120 degrees separated by just 85 miles.
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