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RE: 7,000 mile Road Trip Around United States, Need Ideas!

by geo_nerd 29 May 2012

Yea, you do need to reverse the route. Actually, you can camp just about anywhere on National Forest land. The western half of the count…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by lokii 11 May 2012

Well to each his own. I live in Tornado alley and have had a tornado drop a 100 yards from me. I never knew a Suburban could break 130…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by ianw6705 09 May 2012

That's the problem with tornadoes - you are either missed by them, or if hit, you're cactus. I think cyclones (hurricanes) are a lot…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by travelinhobo 09 May 2012

Can ya get wi-fi reception from inside one of those cyclones as it picks you up and delivers you to death? 'cause man, your report would…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by ianw6705 08 May 2012

Then it's even sillier if it's not cheap!
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by geo_nerd 08 May 2012

Ian, REAL storm chasers are nothing like the screaming idiots you've seen on TeeVee. Success requires takes a lot of patience and experienc…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by johnsang 08 May 2012

ianw what makes you think it is cheap? :-) And, I have been inside of and very close to major meteorological phenomena and it is VERY…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by ianw6705 08 May 2012

There again ... I find storm-chasing one of the silliest human activities ever devised - but I recognise some people get cheap thrills…
RE: Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by johnsang 08 May 2012

Hey! Great informative post! Thanks les.
Tornado Chasing, Great Plains.

by les112 07 May 2012

I have storm chased across the Great Plains on four separate occasions. Each 10 day tour covered some 5,000 miles, and when the weather…
Re: North America trip for a solo female!

by vasenka 02 May 2012

California is a beautiful state...It is much older than the East Coast of America...that is sometimes forgotten... California is almost…
RE: Boston to San Francisco- 8 Day's, 1 way

by johnsang 29 April 2012

I like driving trips because you can see the country up close and experience the air and views and terrain. 50 hours out of 200 or so…
RE: Cross-Country --- NYC to Seattle!

by mrpenney 28 April 2012

>long stretches of lonely highway may not be that safe, and well, what happens if you run out of gas? People in the north country are…
RE: Too ambitious?

by ansh_jain_97 04 April 2012

The Northern Plains would be very hot in May and June, which as said is summers, not monsoon. What would you do in Goa during this seaso…
RE: Tips for Boston to Las Vegas road trip

by geo_nerd 03 April 2012

Camping east of the Mississippi will be buggy, hot and sticky. Hardly terminal, but perhaps not much fun? Once you reach the Great Plains,…
RE: India May-June

by ansh_jain_97 03 April 2012

Around the Northern Plains (which includes Delhi), May and June are the hottest months- expect temps going up to 45C. Not sure about…
RE: Santa Fe Trail Bicycle Tour

by trekker502 23 March 2012

The Cimarron Trail is shorter, but there are/were 60 miles where water was difficult to find, so the longer, more rugged, Mountain Trail…
RE: Yes, we do all have guns

by Dutch_Uncle 11 March 2012

defenstrator- For openers, I am from the US. All of the rattlessnakes I killed were west of the 100th meridian in the US. As noted above…
RE: India anyone?

by ansh_jain_97 08 March 2012

One thing however: many parts of India, including the Northern Plains *Delhi and around, plus more south) and much of the south can be…
RE: Moving from Charleston, SC to Denver, CO

by denver_mugwamp 28 February 2012

Unfortunately, there isn't a lot to see when you're coming across Kansas except a whole lot of grain silos. There's Mount Sunflower,…
Re: Chicago-San Francisco Via Las Vegas and Los Angeles

by zeldasdad 19 February 2012

Welcome to Rhorn Tree. You are not making the best use of the 11 days between Chicago and Las Vegas. Limiting yourself to only 5 hours…
RE: A new text editor for my diaries

by spampants_ 25 December 2011

Der Waschbär (Procyon lotor), auch als Nordamerikanischer Waschbär oder altertümlich als Schupp bezeichnet, ist ein in Nordamerika heimis…
RE: Non-obvious geography

by Joell 08 December 2011

+U.S. is New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Rockies, Northwest, and Southwest.+ +The ten-region U.S. is…
RE: Non-obvious geography

by mrpenney 08 December 2011

>I though Ray was mostly right. He just missed the Southeast, Southwest and Texas. The four-region U.S. is Northeast, Southeast, Midwest…
RE: Non-obvious geography

by RoadWarrior 08 December 2011

+Where is the mid-west of the USA, if it isn't the central part of the western area?+ For a person who is traveling westward from the…