What's It Like Where You Live? (Revisited)

[Wyatt Burp]

I brought this up a long time ago and thought I'd do it again. I'm intrigued by a bunch of people with a common interest who are from such diverse corners of the country, and in some cases other countries. I live in the heart of the gold rush country here in California. The snow capped Sierras can be seen off in the distance.
What's it like where you live? What interesting, historical, or just plain beautiful stuff do you see every day, and maybe take for granted sometimes, that others would think is cool?

 

[CW Spook]

Most of the time I'm here in the middle of some of the best grain farming land in the world...miles and miles of corn and soybeans, neatly subdivided by roads running n-s/e-w along the section lines like a giant checkerboard. It's particularly lovely from the air in the late spring and early summer when each field is a different shade of green. I'm about 100 miles west of the Rock Island Arsenal museum which I'm sure most folks here would enjoy visiting. The rest of the time I'm up in the Chippewa National Forest, right on the Laurentian divide where the rivers start flowing north to Hudson Bay and the arctic ocean.

 

[CajunBass]

Well, there were a couple of pretty big skirmishes around here during the late War of Secession. You might have heard of them. Fredericksburg, Chancelorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Brandy Station, Manasass (1&2). Those are the ones within twenty-five miles or so. A hard days march anyway. There are rifle pits just outside the kitchen window here. Stonewall Jackson was killed less than five miles from where I sit.

That'll do for now.

 

[rburg]

What's it like where you live?

Its sunny and bright, but cold here. I live right on the banks of the Ohio river. When I look out, all I see is murky water (its still receeding from flood stage.) I can look out and see the stadium where the Bungals lose all season. Barges constantly ply the waters up and down stream. Always action. Last week there was a floating restaurant break loose and try to head out (full of people). I had kind of a ring side seat. I'm at a wide place in the road, so drug buyers returning from Ohio pull up to use their recently scored poison. Then the locals bust them for it. Sometimes full felony takedowns. Neighbor once went out and asked nicely if they'd point their guns someplace other than his house! I thought it was a reasonable request. I've noticed now they point the guns at Ohio and keep their backs toward our homes.

 

[BlackSky]

I get to see countless bumber stickers stuck to Prius's on a daily basis. The most common seem to be Obama Hope/Change, Free Tibet, No War, Coexist and Bush Lies. Often, there are so many on the back of the car (usually a Volvo or Subaru in this scenario) you can hardly even tell what color the car is.

 

[feralmerril]

Cedar city utah is close to zion, cedar breaks and bryce canyon national parks. Known as the festival city for shakespearian stuff (I never went) but people actualy come from the other side the planet for plays!
Near the mountain meadows massicure site, 45 miles. My wifes stepmother is the gr, gr, grandaughter of john doyle lee who was the only person to be exicuted for his part in it. In a hours drive you can see many turkey, deer, some mountain goats and sheep, elk, antelope and wild horses also some poligamists. Walmart is good for spotting them.
We live at 6,000 ft, it gets to almost 11,000 ft behind us. Also the country drops down to 2,500 ft below us so you can pick your tempiture. Mesquite nevada a hour and half away for eats and gambling.
Probley one of the best areas in the country to own and ride a ATV, as the famous piute trail system is near as is the marquant and panascant trail systems. It`s all BLM land out of town every direction. Also dixie national forest etc. You can open carry here, and ccw,s are easy.
Lots of piute indians, cowboys and sheep hearders. Some plad shorts wearing tourists too along with spandex wearing bicyclelists.
Lots of mormons, but I never been in one of their churchs. They are nice people but I am glad I aint looking for a job here!
Picture from above our house. I found a old trail on the quad there. Also just a typical picture on another quad ride about a hour and half away.

 

[deanodog]

Surrounded by the beautiful hills of east Ky (GO UK). Close to the nicest small town in the U. S. (IMO). In coal country.

 

[Bud11]

In Southern California and near the resort town of Palm Springs, and in the desert. Great hiking and golfing all nestled in a mountain surrounded valley. Snow on the mountain tops right now. Does get HOT here in the summer though. Bud

 

[ladder13]

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I'm 15 minutes away from a boat launch that will let me explore the atchafalya basin (think Swamp People) catching bass, sac a lait (crappie) catfish etc.(Also can hunt tree rats deer ducks and woodcock) I'm 10 minutes from a launch that will take me into Vermillion bay and then to the gulf of Mexico where you head south and the next land you hit is Mexico. I'm half an hour away from my duck ponds. I'm far enough from New orleans yet close enough to go in for the day. All this and cable TV and a WalMart too!!!!
The only thing I would like is crystal clear water like in Florida-but hell, if you go far enough out into the gulf I got that too
I think the only other place I would like to live would be along ther Texas coast west of galeveston down to the border. I loves me some of that warm salty Gulf air .

 

[snowman]

Most of the time I'm here in the middle of some of the best grain farming land in the world...miles and miles of corn and soybeans, neatly subdivided by roads running n-s/e-w along the section lines like a giant checkerboard. It's particularly lovely from the air in the late spring and early summer when each field is a different shade of green.

CW's description above would be similar to my description of this area, the primary difference being that the soil in his area is more consistently superior over large tracts of ground, whereas my area has spots here and there which aren't as productive.

Just north of here is a huge area of ground as flat as a tabletop which generations ago was known as the Great Black Swamp. There is an interesting history to it, but rather than try to record it here, I'll just suggest that you run a search on it. Others can tell the story better than I.

Putnam County, where I live, was settled largely by German Catholic immigrants. As you're probably aware, they built BIG, TALL church buildings, modeling them to some degree after European cathedrals. For the architecture buff, or someone like me with an artistic bent, one can enjoy a drive around the county to see a number of these magnificent edifices. I believe the tallest spire in the county is in Glandorf(yes, settled by folks from Glandorf, Germany), around 260' if I remember correctly.

There's probably more stuff which I'm currently forgetting, but I better get back to work.

Andy

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I get to see countless bumber stickers stuck to Prius's on a daily basis. The most common seem to be Obama Hope/Change, Free Tibet, No War, Coexist and Bush Lies. Often, there are so many on the back of the car (usually a Volvo or Subaru in this scenario) you can hardly even tell what color the car is.

And you're pretty close to the EVILLL Bohemian Grove, nestled right in the middle of granolaville to the west of you. Do you ever come across an old VW bus with the stupidest old bumper sticker of all time "You can't hug a child with nuclear arms!" I could just shoot...oh, never mind.
We put my mom's, dad's, sister's, and cousin's ashes in the Russian River over the course of twenty years. Guerneville was our hangout in the late 60's because my uncle had a cabin outside of town. Pretty fun back then.

 

[Dashriprock]

Del Gue in the film Jeremiah Johnson says it best:

"Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world! And by God, I was right."

All four seasons in perfect form. 300 days of sunshine annually. All the trout menacing days my calendar will allow. Elk, deer and proghorn a' plenty, with which to fill my hunting tags. Wide open spaces, high mountain passes, paradise to me.

 

[RdrBill]

Sir.
I live in Yuma Arizona. We have large amounts of lettuce and snowbirds in the winter. In the summer we have warm weather. When the sun goes down we have renegade mexicans running thru the area importing themselves and drugs.
Yuma does promote its old history to a small point. We are famous for having a Territorial Prison and a train from Contention, New Mexico. It is not a large city, but Yuma County is a large tract of land. Once outside the city limits it is wide open desert, great for off road and many places to shoot against the hillside. Lots of unique desert to walk thru and many good rocks to pick up. If you are a camera person there are unlimited thing to photograph.
It is a border town and that is not always a good thing. Heavy presence of federal, military, and law enforcement. Law enforcement is here because of the crime. Military is here for the desert training ranges.
I have had a good job here for 26 years and it is a good place to live. It would be even better if the illegal aliens and the winter aliens would all just go away.
Bill@Yuma

 

[jubela#4]

Right in the middle of the bluegrass region of Kentucky. Gently rolling hills, bluegrass, horse farms, rock fences. A great place to live.

 

[wbraswell]

Piney woods of East Texas. 10 billion stinkin' pine trees.

 

[joeintexas]

Abilene, Texas, where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk in the summer, it gets really hot! In the old west days Abilene was quite the cattle town with thousands of head going through every day and with that a lot of wild boys with guns, it was a pretty rough town in the 1800s. The town did settle down after that, until the last few years we never locked our cars or houses, however, with the influx of illegals coming in if it ain't locked up its gone, such a shame. All in all you will find good southern hospitality, great bar b que and the best highways in the country. Now we just need some trees, lol.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Abilene, Texas, where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk in the summer, it gets really hot! In the old west days Abilene was quite the cattle town with thousands of head going through every day and with that a lot of wild boys with guns, it was a pretty rough town in the 1800s. The town did settle down after that, until the last few years we never locked our cars or houses, however, with the influx of illegals coming in if it ain't locked up its gone, such a shame. All in all you will find good southern hospitality, great bar b que and the best highways in the country. Now we just need some trees, lol.

I still get a kick driving up Highway 49 out here that, like your town, is full of old towns that I'm proud to say were as blood soaked as any in the west. Mokelumne Hill, Angels Camp, Nevada City, etc. Moke Hill was the most violent. We're talking 1850's and on, with Colt Dragoons and 51 Navies bellowing gunsmoke on a daily basis. I've often traveled through Copperopoulis, the location of the first, and last stage robberies of Black Bart.

 

[Iggy]

This 'bout covers it.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Floyd County, Virginia. It's where people from "Almost Heaven" go when they pass on. . .


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