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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 4:04 pm to TheLSUDynasty
Posted on 9/7/26 at 4:04 pm to TheLSUDynasty
I love driving out there.
You can see for miles and miles.
You can see for miles and miles.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 4:14 pm to metallica81788
Pictures of your sister?
Posted on 9/7/26 at 4:32 pm to TheLSUDynasty
I’ve driven some “scary” shite in the US. But southern Wyoming takes the cake. High, high, and fast.
Scarier than millions of dollar highway by a long shot.
Southern Utah is scary too.
Scarier than millions of dollar highway by a long shot.
Southern Utah is scary too.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 4:36 pm to KingOfTheWorld
I don’t know what it is, but 20-30 mph wind starts to piss me off after 2-3 days of it. You can’t escape it.
It gets oppressive.
It gets oppressive.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 4:37 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Only the drifters on the High Plains give me concern
You never told me what your name was
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:01 pm to bayoubengals88
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:13 pm to TheLSUDynasty
There is beauty in the starkness of the desert.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:35 pm to TheLSUDynasty
Love the endless sky out west 
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:47 pm to auggie
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I love driving out there.
My favorite thing is to see a storm over a distant mountain range and watch it lightning and dumping rain maybe 30 miles away.
this a milllion miles
well a few 100,000 Texas to California a back a few times,, a few different routes, just to see that part of America before it was gone
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:48 pm to TheLSUDynasty
I'm more freaked out by being on the ocean where there's no land in site.
The Ocean is a scary mofo.
The Ocean is a scary mofo.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:52 pm to TheLSUDynasty
I remember standing on top of Capulin Volcano in New Mexico and wondering if I was literally looking across the entire state. Drive northwest from there seemed to go on forever with the Rockies always in the background.
On the flipside, people from that area took a field trip to Alabama. While driving along the interstate, they were asking where all the people lived because of all the trees.
On the flipside, people from that area took a field trip to Alabama. While driving along the interstate, they were asking where all the people lived because of all the trees.
This post was edited on 9/8/26 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:59 pm to TheLSUDynasty
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This post was edited on 9/8/26 at 11:22 am
Posted on 9/7/26 at 5:59 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Only the drifters on the High Plains give me concern.
Knucklehead deli tried to gyp me off the price
So I clocked him on the turban with a bag of ice
Posted on 9/7/26 at 8:42 pm to TheLSUDynasty
I remember riding my motorcycle across northern Oklahoma when heading from a Eureka Springs motorcycle rally and heading due west.
The thing I noticed most was how the wind was blowing from the southwest to northeast and most of the trees had a definite lopsided appearance with more branches on the northeast side and the road looked endless toward the horizon with the sun setting in line with the road.
The wind was blowing so hard at times that even while going straight on an 850 lb. heavy cruiser, my bike was running a couple degrees off center and leaning slightly toward the right.
The thing I noticed most was how the wind was blowing from the southwest to northeast and most of the trees had a definite lopsided appearance with more branches on the northeast side and the road looked endless toward the horizon with the sun setting in line with the road.
The wind was blowing so hard at times that even while going straight on an 850 lb. heavy cruiser, my bike was running a couple degrees off center and leaning slightly toward the right.
Posted on 9/7/26 at 11:16 pm to bayoubengals88
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I don’t know what it is, but 20-30 mph wind starts to piss me off after 2-3 days of it. You can’t escape it.
It gets oppressive
I can see that. It seems relentless year-round. I definitely believe that would affect your mental and emotional health.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 12:33 am to TheLSUDynasty
The Front Range of Colorado can be pretty intimidating.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:51 am to TheLSUDynasty
Grew up in South Louisiana, spent most of my adult years on the Great Plains (hence the username). Love them both. The wide-open grasslands reminded me a lot of the marshes I grew up hunting and fishing in (Cheyenne Bottoms is the most Louisiana place outside Louisiana). I loved the desolation of the High Plains and the wide open skies. Felt more open than the crowded feel of South Louisiana and the trees that blocked out the sky. Read some Dan Flores sometime--a Shreveport-area native who also fell in love with the "horizontal yellow."
Posted on 9/8/26 at 5:48 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.
Bruh, really.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 6:07 am to fightin tigers
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Take 50 Mg of man up
Is that OTC?
Posted on 9/8/26 at 6:29 am to TheLSUDynasty
I love it. I have driven out to New Mexico, Colorado, and Montana a few times and it's just interesting to me to see the change from forest, to plains to desert to mountains, and New Mexico probably has the most interesting landscapes of them all (but Montana is beautiful).
We did go through the scariest rainstorm I've ever been in in western Nebraska, near Scott's Bluff. You could see it coming for a long way and once in it, you couldn't see anything.
Leaving Cody, WY early one morning, I cut loose on an empty road through the high desert. There were no other cars for over 100 miles. I would see antelope standing in the slim shadow of a telephone pole because that was as good as it got. The scenery didn't change much, nor did I slow down, for an hour or so, until I got to Shoshoni, WY.
We did go through the scariest rainstorm I've ever been in in western Nebraska, near Scott's Bluff. You could see it coming for a long way and once in it, you couldn't see anything.
Leaving Cody, WY early one morning, I cut loose on an empty road through the high desert. There were no other cars for over 100 miles. I would see antelope standing in the slim shadow of a telephone pole because that was as good as it got. The scenery didn't change much, nor did I slow down, for an hour or so, until I got to Shoshoni, WY.
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