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7 Responses to “Pissing Contest?”

1. Jeff Harrell Says:
   March 22nd, 2005 at 7:00 pm

   It’d be more fun if you boldfaced the states where your blog readers live, and underlined the states where your blog contributors live.

2. ninme Says:
   March 22nd, 2005 at 7:23 pm

   But that would require way too much interactivity.

3. Bubblehead Says:
   March 22nd, 2005 at 8:16 pm

   How the heck can you get all the way across the country without going through Nebraska or the Dakotas? I mean, I know they’re boring, but taking I-80 or I-90 cuts several hundred miles off your standard trip to anywhere in the Northwest from the east…

4. Robby Edwards Says:
   March 23rd, 2005 at 5:12 am

   Well, I grew up in Kansas (Lawrence) and my parents went through Colorado (b/c they loved the Rocky Mountains) any time we traveled west, so I never made it to Nebraska or Oklahoma as a child. I am still missing Oklahoma, although in 2003 my wife and I drove to Montana (to Visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton Nat’l Parks) via I-80 and back via I-90 & I-94, so I scooped up a bunch of mid-western states I hadn’t visited before.

   Also, you could fly out west and miss a bunch of states that way. My wife and I did this on our honeymoon. We flew to Seattle, which is how I crossed Washington, Idaho and Montana off my list. We visited Seattle, then drove up to Vancouver, B.C., and then drove to the Canadian Rockies before returning to Seattle via Montana and Idaho.

5. ninme Says:
   March 23rd, 2005 at 9:13 am

   Yeah, you could cut through Canada if you want to skip them, you could fly to Chicago…

   Okay this is what happened: I have five major tours (and dozens of little ones) under my belt:

   The first one is oft-repeated, every year basically in my youth. Start at home in CA, camp your way up through Nevada, Wyoming (Yellowstone, Grand Tetons), cut through Montana, hit Canada, visit the family in various cities and national parks, zoom home through Idaho, Washington, Oregan.

   Then there’s the quick way, which is what we usually do nowadays, straight up 5, cuz across a little corner of Oregon to hit the gorge, skipping Portland traffic, turn north at the tri-cities, get on 90 to Coeur D’Alene, head north to Bonners Ferry, and you’re in Canada. Back the same way.

   Then when I was very young we did the Revolutionary/Civil War tour, and visited New York so dad could visit Columbia and we could see where they lived. That’s when we got in most of those states that were later repeated by accident when I lived in Philly.

   And there’s the midwest tour we did so dad could see all his friends from KU - flew to Chicago, stayed there a couple days, did the Great Lakes, Macinac and the dunes, down through Iowa to visit friends, Kansas, Missouri, etc. I’d been to Iowa before that for a wedding, but this was the big tour.

   Then the southern and southwest states Peter and I did when we moved from Philly to Seattle: If you want the cities, they’re start in Delaware (Peter’s parents) to Ashville, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe, Telluride, Moab, home (Bay Area) for a couple days, motel in Oregon somewhere, Seattle. And yes, we did get from Moab to home in one day. We killed the family records for driving times.

   So, sorry, bubbles. Never had any reason to seek out Nebraska or the Dakotas. I hear they play football out there?

6. Alexander Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 11:21 am

   Piker. Check mine out…

7. ninme Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 11:54 am

   Why did you just call me a piker? Jerk!

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