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Strange Meat · #**261** Posted **Feb 21, 2011, 9:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by mobyhead

Traveling across I-90 in South Dakota can be brutal as well, (minus the billboards for Wall Drug).

Of the 4 remaining states I have to visit to get all 50, I figure for sure that I'll make it to Oregon and Montana, because, well, I want to. The Dakotas are the other 2 states, and, I am far less motivated to see them...

vid · #**262** Posted **Feb 21, 2011, 10:15 PM**

I don't believe the Dakotas even exist. I mean, one just tried to make it legal to kill doctors. Seriously! How can that exist? Even Bill O'Reilly doesn't know how.

http://www.101worstplaces.com/

I am pretty sure the entire state of North Dakota was "a place not to visit". Wall Drug was there too. Hilarious read. Nevada is on there too.

Kansas also seems like a pretty boring place. You guys are lucky though in that at least half of the states have something going on. If Canada was split into 50 pieces, only about 6 of them would have something worth seeing.

Strange Meat · #**263** Posted **Feb 21, 2011, 10:18 PM**

Nevada is cool though because at least there are mountains and shit to look at.

Strange Meat · #**264** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 1:05 AM**

why am i single?

probably because i like looking at maps.

like this one.

and it totally makes sense to me.

touraccuracy · #**265** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 6:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

Of the 4 remaining states I have to visit to get all 50, I figure for sure that I'll make it to Oregon and Montana, because, well, I want to. The Dakotas are the other 2 states, and, I am far less motivated to see them...

i've been to 3 of the 4 states that you have left... which is weird because i've only been to 17 states.

and i've been really close to ND many times but just never crossed into it (spent a lot of time in southern manitoba when i was younger and passed through minnesota, SD, and montana more recently).

touraccuracy · #**266** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 6:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Talk about raised expectations. My cousin and I stopped there because we had seen signs for it all day, and were pretty disappointed to find out that it was pretty much just a pharmacy...and a T-Rex.

SAME (i think). we stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere and saw dinosaurs and a pharmacy. i remember those signs, pretty sure the place we stopped was wall drug.

Clevelumbus · #**267** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 11:35 AM**

I-80 Omaha to Cheyenne is the most boring stretch I've been on. I enjoy the desert scenery of some other stretches of empty highway.

US 2 from Cut Bank, Montana east to god knows where is hellish too.

I have Alaska and N.Dakota left to visit.. I want to go to Alaska, N.Dakota will have to be visited most likely the next time I have to drive cross country, and take I-94 across, which is probably pretty awful itself.

ColDayMan · #**268** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 3:18 PM**

Personally, VISUALLY I'll take a drive on I-70 through Kansas over any drive in Mississippi or any wooded area. When you see a non-stop solid wall of trees and no visual break between Little Rock to the Texas border on I-30, it makes me want to chop them down and see if there's a Ta Molly's nearby!

Buckeye Native 001 · #**269** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 3:37 PM**

US 101 from San Francisco to LA is gorgeous, but I really don't recommend doing that drive by yourself.

I-71 from Cincinnati to Cleveland is the most frustrating (with state troopers seemingly at every county line and mile marker), but this is probably applicable to every interstate highway in Ohio...

touraccuracy · #**270** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 5:02 PM**

the very beginning of the 1 in california, right after you get off the 101 near leggett to get to the coast, is the craziest drive i've ever done. so many twists and turns that i actually got car sick while in the drivers seat, which has never happened. we filmed the drive, i should probably find that video.

Lipani · #**271** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 6:05 PM**

^ It's never made me sick. I've done Highway 1 from San Diego to San Francisco a couple of times. Between Malibu and San Francisco is the best drive in the country, in my opinion.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**272** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 7:57 PM**

I rode with someone who got carsick on US 50 westbound through the Sierras on our way to Sacramento. Some of those switchbacks are downright terrifying...

ColDayMan · #**273** Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 9:31 PM**

I now would liked to be called AutoRacist:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=1#post5174973

Buckeye Native 001 · #**274** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:09 AM**

What the fuck is an autoracist!?

Ayreonaut · #**275** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:12 AM**

The Weather Network has a serious obsession with Moncton. I think I see more footage from Moncton than Toronto.

mobyhead · #**276** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

The Weather Network has a serious obsession with Moncton. I think I see more footage from Moncton than Toronto.

Um, Midwesterner here. What's a Montcon?

Ayreonaut · #**277** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by mobyhead

Um, Midwesterner here. What's a Montcon?

A place where people fuel up when driving from Quebec-Halifax.

mobyhead · #**278** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:33 AM**

I need to buy some new dress shirts for work. Walmart sells them but I'm thinking my better color options are gonna be at Kohls.

Has anyone ever been to a store where they sell the dress shirt and matching tie packaged together? They sell them to dudes that have no skills of color coordination. I bought one once. The shirt fell apart after the first washing. I think they are rejects from Pakistan.

mobyhead · #**279** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

A place where people fuel up when driving from Quebec-Halifax.

I really need to visit Canada one of these days. Hell I'm lucky if I ever leave my county anymore.

rockyi · #**280** Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 12:35 AM**

I spent a night or two in Moncton. Nice little city, actually.