What do you like best about your home state?

What I LOVE About Tennessee

EVERYTHING!

I LOVE Nashville! It's the Music And Party City. All the New restaurants, the clubs, Hottest spot in the US! Nashville Is BOOMING!

And 3 1/2 hours east I can be in the Smokie Mountains. Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Or Choo Choo city, good ole Look Out Mountain Chattanooga.

3 1/2 hours west, I can be in Memphis or Germantown Tn. Or a little north west be in the beautiful Land Between The Lakes state parks. Or Reelfoot Lake, nature at its finest.

One and half hour south I can be in the great state of Alabama or a hour and half north I can be in the beautiful state of Kentucky.

So, Great music, moonshine, Bar B Que, Nashville Original Hot Chicken, Fantastic state wide hunting and fishing, for us racing fans there's Bristol Raceway or Memphis Motor Sports Park.

What's NOT To LOVE About the Great State Of TENNESSEE?
 
No offense to my friends and relatives in Iowa, but I escaped to Missouri when I was 3. Actually Dad, an Iowa Hawkeye boy graduated from college on his WW 2 GI bill and took me. His decision may have been influenced by my Mother a Mo girl.

Dad's day job was an Engineer for the DOD US Army. He bought a 200 acre farm and we were raised like it was the heart of the depression. We raised most everything we ate, Mom canned more food than Libbys.

I guess our parents were keeping us occupied and out of trouble. we thought we were poor farm kids. Dad sure pulled the wool over our eyes. My brother and I were farm labor, dad pocketed the money. Later in life after Dad sold the farm and moved to town he still cut wood for his fireplace insert in a new home. But when he bought a new CJ5 or his Jeep J10 golden eagle truck he just paid cash. A foreign concept to my little brother and I. Took us a while to figure out he did not have payments.

That lifestyle allowed us to learn how to work, work faster so we had hunting, fishing, horseback time and all the rest we wanted to do. We lived close to an army base but past the strip it was all rural.

A spring fed river ran along the highway on the other side of our tall bluffs in front of Dad's farm. We lived on top of the Mountain. There was another river about a quarter of a mile north where the spring fed river connected to it. I learned to fly fish for trout by walking across the road. I would get up early or stay late feeding mosquitos catching Small mouth bass on the river.

My maternal grandpa and 3 uncles had farms on that river. It was pretty easy to put in and do a float trip and get picked up at a relatives farm.

It was home, it gave us our introduction to life, taught us how to hunt, fish and respect the land and game. It is a land of 10 million memories.

The Mo Ozarks are a thing of beauty, hardwood and pine forests. Many cave to explore, Rivers everywhere. Great fishing, was in my boat and watched my ex FIL reel in a 55 LB Flathead at the lake of the Ozarks.

I've camped many places in the Ozarks, most are like stepping back in time, some places seem to have missed mans hand.

Retired to KS, it is a nice place, gun laws are similar, good laid back folks. But they don't have spring fed rivers curling and bubbling down hill hiding trout or small mouth. Valleys that seem to smoke opening day of Turkey season as the sun hits and the mist rises off the clear water. One can see a deer here for a rite fur piece. In places half way to Colorado.

I'd shoot one of those but it'd take a week to walk to it and 2 weeks to drag it out. :)
 
Born a Texan courtesy of the US Army in El Paso while dad was in Korea, I can tell you we have all the seasons here, but sometimes all at once in different places!

Piney woods, coastal plains, hill country, high plains, desert with sand dunes, citrus groves in the valley; you name, we have it somewhere. It's further from El Paso to Texarkana than from Texarkana to Chicago.

Some parts of Texas are so beautiful it'll bring tears to your eyes and some of it God made just to hold the rest together. Perhaps not His best effort.

History and heritage runs deep and almost no one sees the outline of our state and mistakes it for any other. As a child I was told it was rude to ask a man where he was from; if he was from Texas, he'd tell you, and if he wasn't, you didn't want to embarrass him.

Added bonus: if you see men standing around in boots, jeans, and cowboy hats, spittin' Copenhagen, then the first liar doesn't have a chance!
 
Now.. don't rush me... let me think about it..

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I've been to a number of states, and I'd like to visit some more...they all have their charms, but Texas is and always has been "home." There used to be nothing about I Texas I didn't like, but unfortunately we are experiencing an infestation of liberalism in our capital. Right now, we have a good and true governor, and he is doing his utmost to keep Texas "Texas."
 
Well I was born and raised in NYC. For my first 50 years i lived and worked there. Rotating shifts 24/7/365 and it did a number on me. Moved down here to Louisiana and have 4.5 acres and it's all ours. Pecans, pecan pie, fresh oranges starting about December.No crazy gun laws like New York state. Good friends, family and good food. Frank
 
Michigan, once you get away from the big cities to the south. Millions of acres of public land to hunt or wander around on without begging permission or paying a lease. Lakes & streams everywhere. If it had a couple mountains it would be pretty but I'm too old & fat to hike up them anyway.
 
I have visited all the other 49.
Lived for a while in Alaska and Montana.
But there is no place like home. IDAHO
Not too cold. Not too hot. (4 seasons)
No hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes (yet).
Beautiful scenery and all kinds of outdoor activities.
Nice people (mostly)
A pretty good football team. (Boise State Broncos 7 & 0 so far)
What more could I want?
 
Interstate 8, Eastbound.
We live about 40 miles West of Yuma AZ. Kinda like being in old East Germany, we can see freedom just across the fence.
My Grandparents on my Mom and Dad's side moved here in the early 1900's and we have been farming here ever since. It is not a business that you can pull up stakes and move on. My daughter moved to Patagonia AZ and maybe when I retire my wife and I will move there.
Ken
 
CATI1835 said:
Interesting that no one from the Left Coast or North of the Carolinas has responded. :confused:
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Since my marriage, in the regions mentioned, I've lived in CA, WA, VA, PA, NY, MA, ME.
Also FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, OH, MI, IA, France and Switzerland.
Toured every state but HI and every country in central and western Europe except Ireland.
I've enjoyed them all.
Every place has exceptional beauty to be found, and good people to befriend. That is distinct from unfortunate government intrusion within political boundaries.
As a recent firearms enthusiast, I'd eliminate some places as a residence now, but that was not the case for me until a few years ago.
 
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The best part about Connecticut?

The sign that says "Your leaving Connecticut"!



Maybe the best part isn't the "leaving sign" but the "Welcome sign" in the rear view mirror...
 
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