The World Is Flat

[James]

I forgot how flat Texas is. That is until I flew over part of it today. I could see for miles and miles and...

I haven't been here in over a year, and admittedly it feels weird. I actually feel like a foreigner...

[mere1975]

Welcome back, podnah.

- Mere "sorry you feel foreign" 1975

[monet2u]

Texas is very very very very very flat. Odd cuz when I fly home, there are brown mountains and green hills and snow and until I actually flew over Texas myself, I would have never believe such a flat place existed.

[Tracy]

My neighborhood is hill-y but nothin' like those coastal foothills but southeastern Louisiana is the flattest place I've been (cause it's a delta).

We took a trip to Boise, Idaho when we were living in Louisiana and the people there called us "flatlanders".

[sam]

Flat is one thing, but then there is monotonous. In my personal experience, western Kansas takes the cake.

[ifihadahifi]

Flat is one thing, but then there is monotonous. In my personal experience, western Kansas takes the cake.

You should make the drive from McKinney to Regina, Saskatchewan sometime. It's exactly like that 99% of the way.

You know it's a rough road trip with the highlight is "The Corn Palace".

[Rebecca]

But what about the hill country?

[NerfHerder]

Look okay Texas is awesome HOOK EM HORNS but I thought this thread was going to be about Tom Friedman's book of the same title as this thread.

All in favor say JESUS IS LORD

[sam]

You actually think I've read a book?

[aquaphase]

But what about the hill country?

I think the keyword here is hill

growing up this was to the east of me


and this was to the west

[ifihadahifi]

growing up

I think you told me before but I've forgotten. Where exactly were you raised?

Big Bend is probably my favorite part of Texas.

[mr_j]

try driving from Lubbock to the metroplex area. Loads of nothing!

yes, sucky and flat as texas may be, it's the natural beauty of the East Texas part that makes it so utterly wonderful.

an interesting discovery of mine. when you leave the you start to listen to the entire Tripping Daisy discography of albums and the two EP's, listening chronologically, if you listen to the first note of Bill when you leave the city, the last note of 'the sudden shift worried him' will greet you as you hit the Dallas City Limits.

these trips are long and boring and you come up with fun stuff like that!

[aquaphase]

growing up

I think you told me before but I've forgotten. Where exactly were you raised?

Big Bend is probably my favorite part of Texas.

Las Cruces, NM

[mere1975]

Las Cruces, NM

That's Spanish for "The Cruces."

- Mere "imagine Chris Farley saying El Nino is Spanish for The Nino and it's funnier" 1975

[sam]

Las Cruces, NM

That's Spanish for "The Cruces."

- Mere "imagine Chris Farley saying El Nino is Spanish for The Nino and it's funnier" 1975

oh, but I do.


I think there is an austere beauty to West Texas and Southern New Mexico. You have to take it in in big deep breaths with the sun on your face. Living in a maze of pine trees for a few years (AL) helped me realize that.