Goddamn Real Estate

[Caliga]

I'd like to do that drive someday... I've been to Texas but only to Houston and Dallas.  If I ever did do it, I'd need to make a 'slight' detour to the small town of Farwell on the NM border.  My great-great-great grandfather is buried in an overgrown cemetery there and I'd like to pay my respects.

[Barrister]

I'll raise you the 16 hours on the Yellowhead Highway Edmonton to Winnipeg.  For extra fun half of it is single lane highway.  Still flat as a board the entire way.

[crazy canuck]

I have never driven it but I am told the road through Western Ontario goes on for days and may be the most boring stretch of road outside Siberia.

[Barrister]

I have never driven it but I am told the road through Western Ontario goes on for days and may be the most boring stretch of road outside Siberia.

I dunno what road you'retalking about for sure... but I drove the #1 to Thunder Bay (and drove through UP Michigan to get to the Soo) and both were fascinating drives through beautiful Canadian Sheild landscape.

[crazy canuck]

I have never driven it but I am told the road through Western Ontario goes on for days and may be the most boring stretch of road outside Siberia.

I dunno what road you'retalking about for sure... but I drove the #1 to Thunder Bay (and drove through UP Michigan to get to the Soo) and both were fascinating drives through beautiful Canadian Sheild landscape.

The exception that proves the rule?

[Malthus]

Driving through Canadian Shield country just *has* to be more scenic than driving across pararie or tundra. 

[crazy canuck]

Driving through Canadian Shield country just *has* to be more scenic than driving across pararie or tundra. 

Fair point.

[MadImmortalMan]

Canadian Sheild landscape.

What exactly is that? Flat with occasional lakes? Isn't the Shield a big glacier-scraped table thing?

[Malthus]

Canadian Sheild landscape.

What exactly is that? Flat with occasional lakes? Isn't the Shield a big glacier-scraped table thing?

No no no.

Canadian shield country is very hilly, rough and uneven, requiring roadways to be blasted through massive stone hills, leaving very distinctive cliffs all over the place. Very scenic.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=canadian+shield+highway&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4_qkUaD5AsPhygHer4GICQ&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=850

[katmai]

You people make me laugh.

[crazy canuck]

You people make me laugh.

Those who dont live near mountains are more deserving of pity than ridicule.

[Tonitrus]

Something about texas calls to me. Latinas with too much black eye makeup? The heat? Enough firepower to defeat the 6th Army?

Careful.  We are one of the youngest states in the Union.  Lots of kidsillegals will be getting onmowing your lawn.

Fixed.

Also, for passing through Texas....Big Bend NP is actually really cool (I'd visit in the cooler months...like say, February).  I went there it expecting it to be a "ho hum" National Park...but it is really quite spectacular.

[Barrister]

You people make me laugh.

We're talking about boring drives.  Clearly Alaska has no place in that conversation.

[katmai]

You people make me laugh.

We're talking about boring drives.  Clearly Alaska has no place in that conversation.

I've driven from sea to shining sea as it were 5 times, two "longest" drives were West Texas and Montana.

[Malthus]

You people make me laugh.

Those who dont live near mountains are more deserving of pity than ridicule.

The issue isn't whether driving through shield country is as scenic as driving through the Rockies, it is whether it is as scenic as driving through the tundra.