> > No, the outside view does not count- - - I'm talking about trips through Utah. . texas. . etc. . . .the most boring landscapes in the country are to be found on the interstates in those areas ;)
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> > !!! boring??? !!! You aren't talking about the same Utah that I drove across in 1970. And I've flown over Utah a number of times and I stay glued to the window. Spectacular! Can't say much about Texas, since I've only been there twice and never crossed it...
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> But I can. Boring? Texas? Boring? Let me guess what you mean by that: you drove through the panhandle. Maybe out through west Texas. Texas is just too huge to be generalized by one part -- it's bigger than several European nations!
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> You, Mousie, and you, Howard, have to see the rolling hills of east Texas oh, you've also got to see the German Hill Country. Miles of beaches! Rock formations! Wide majestic land!
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> And possibly the best-maintained highway system in the nation!
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> -Faux "why yes, I have done work for the Texas Department of Tourism. why do you ask?" Pas

When my mother returned from a flight which took her over a good chunk of Texas, she remarked that the topography of Texas and of western Oregon are pretty much the same--but reversed. We have hills, they have holes.

gab"Depends on how you look at it, I guess."by