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The World Is Flat
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:32 am
by 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...
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:29 am
by mere1975
Welcome back, podnah.
- Mere "sorry you feel foreign" 1975
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:10 am
by 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.
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:48 pm
by 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".
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:34 pm
by sam
Flat is one thing, but then there is monotonous. In my personal experience, western Kansas takes the cake.
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:36 am
by 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".
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:26 pm
by Rebecca
But what about the hill country?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:41 am
by 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
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:32 pm
by sam
You actually think I've read a book?
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:52 pm
by 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
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:41 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:48 pm
by 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!
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:01 pm
by 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
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:44 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:50 am
by 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.