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

[Pete99004]

Hiking, walking, biking, horse riding, snow mobile areas, more golf coarse public access than you can count, cross country skiing - downhill ski mountain resorts, 120+ glacier formed clear water lakes, gold and silver mines, the Lewis and Clark trail, lush green pine forest, the Selkirk and Bitterroot mountains, high plains desert, mountain views along with prairie, hay and rolling wheat fields, 4 complete seasons (all moderate) and wildlife galore all within 80 miles of my home and most within 20 miles and much in my backyard. Beautiful sun rise and sun sets, along with 360 degree views - quiet and peaceful - just me the wife and our dogs to enjoy all that is offered. I do my shooting right here - no one to tell me what, when or where to shoot. Wish you all were here to enjoy it with us. Couple of pics of the backyard and the front yard...

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[cowboy117]

I have lived in an RV park for the last 8 years run by an ex-FBI guy and his wife who have been here 20 years.VERY quiet,and 5 miles from the Rogue river and Hellsgate Canyon[really pretty],100 miles from Crater Lake and 100 miles from the Pacific ocean,90 miles from the Redwoods.5 miles from a gun range[that i belone to]also!3 miles from highway 5 and 10 miles from a Wal-Mart! .

 

[thomasinaz]

I live in Phoenix, but get to work in a very beautiful area. Some examples:

 

[truckemup97]

Tom, that's right purdy! I'm guessing you do highline or tower work?

 

[Iggy]

Snowman,
Iggy,

Where do the tracks go? Are they some sort of old, established trail?

Andy

Just a run of the mill trail road between waterin' spots in one of the pastures.. Don't go nowhere in particular.
Here I'm tryin' my best to show how bad Wyoming is and then others come along and show the good stuff.

I remember when a DC-7 flying in a storm missed the top of that mountain by about 50 feet. There were no survivors.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

I`m still here in South Central Michigan.25 miles S of Grand Rapids, 25 miles N of Kalamazoo,(Yes,there really is a Kalamazoo) 30 miles from Lake Michigan, but best of all over 100 miles from Detroit. except for four years in the navy, Michigan has been home for 78 years. When you look at my place on Google Earth, all you can see is a 100 yard circle in the woods. I have to share it with the Deer and Turkeys and all the other Critters,but it never entered my mind to move any where else.

Bill

 

[feralmerril]

One is a rental we own, the other we live in only 4 miles apart. As shown, this country can vary!

 

[BEARMAN]

View from my front porch of the snow this past winter, on the beautiful Cumberland mountains of Tennessee.

 

[Iggy]

The Wyoming Highway Department crew at Wheatland Wyoming put this sign up when they got tired of replacing airport style wind socks about once a week.

The Governor failed to see the humor in it and was rather quickly removed.

 

[Herknav]

Abilene, Texas...All in all you will find good southern hospitality, great bar b que and the best highways in the country.

Is Harold's still in business? Excellent 'cue, as long as you don't mind a little religion and the humor of the "Only White Boy to Ever Work at the Pit" photo! If you're lucky, maybe you can get the owner to sing. Oh, and you forgot about Texas Music and Shiner Bock beer.

 

[joeintexas]

Is Harold's still in business? Excellent 'cue, as long as you don't mind a little religion and the humor of the "Only White Boy to Ever Work at the Pit" photo! If you're lucky, maybe you can get the owner to sing. Oh, and you forgot about Texas Music and Shiner Bock beer.

Yes Harolds is still here, downtown, harold passed it on to his sons who now run it, still some fine eating! Ah yes, texas music, home to willie, waylon, mac davis, and of course bob wills just to mention a few and can't forget george strait! Now that calls for a cold shiner bock! Come visit us sometime.

 

[longranger]

I was born Colorado,raised in Montana,Fire Service in California(28years)My Dads fovorite place on earth was Buffalo WY,spent alot of time in the Big Horns.I moved here after retirement.Best place I have ever lived,best people in the country,most lived where you all are from.

 

[BlackSky]

Here's an example of what I was talking about in reply #5. Took this shot on my way home tonight.

 

[cowboy117]

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

Stuck in the middle,hey?

 

[Malamute]

Over the hills and far away, in a log cabin near the snow capped mountains the where the grizzlies roam and call home. Elk, antelope, mulies, whitetails, moose, black bears, wolves, bighorns, and mountain goats also live here. I joke that in this country, even the liberals have guns. The only person I knew that didn't own a gun, went and bought one after I razzed her about being the only person in the state without one, and she was probably breaking the law by not having a gun. She bought a Red Ryder.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Here's an example of what I was talking about in reply #5. Took this shot on my way home tonight.

I see a lot of that here but not as much as you, I'm sure. When I moved from the Bay Area (East Bay) to Sac. I was pleasantly surprised at how many co-workers were into guns, hunting, and fishing. Makes sense. A little less population (but not for long) and a river town with places to hunt and shoot pretty close. We have Davis nearby which can give Marin county a run for their money, though.

 

[frbeall]

I think I'm ready to move! I'm down in South Texas, 7 miles from Mexico. All the news you're hearing about drug wars is happening right across the border from where I live, I do have my CHL and carry a .45 S&W SA, life's exciting down here.

 

[OMCHamlin]

Well, I live on the eastern shore of Virginia, just about 20 miles south of the Maryland border and EAST of the Cheaspeake Bay. It's pretty much flat as a pancake here, good farmland, great deer and duck hunting, best seafood I've ever had and pretty beaches (here and there). I'm a "come here", transferring from LaMaddalena, Italy (Navy) in 2002 and retired here in 2006. It's pretty quiet which is good, and it's pretty quiet, which is bad sometimes too, but in the balance, mostly good. I have some friends here and it will be soon that I've lived here longer then anyplace else (son of an Army Civil Service Worker and 23 years moving around for the Navy myself, you know). Not too much crime here, though it's getting worse to the point that I'll slip a little something in my pocket or waistband if I go out at night. Pollution? well, no, but it IS chicken country, and .... phew, THAT takes a little getting used to (lookie here, dat's da smell of MONEY, so you BEST get used to it!!) That I have chosen to stay here speaks for itself, though I'm not sure what all it says, but it feels like home at least for now.

 

[VAdoublegunner]

Well, my city was pretty much destroyed a week before this date in 1865 during the evacuation from the advancing Union forces. But Lincoln visited the next day (yay?). There are some pretty decent photos of it in the National Archives photo collection. A number of the buildings are still here today.

It looked like this:

Then, just an hour to the east you can travel along a short parkway and visit where the first permanent English settlement was established, a reconstructed one time colonial capitol city stood, and the battlesite where the American Revolution ended.

So some interesting stuff in a city that pretends to be cosmopolitan but is still in many ways a small town.

 

[jimmyj]

Southeastern Tennessee (Foothills of the Smoky Mountains) Our piece of Heaven.
Small community, friendly folks,Gun Culture, clean air, beautiful scenary. Everyone carrys-open or conceiled.
Still attempting to become a "Real Tennessean". (I have to fight a Tennesse Girl and win. also make love to a Bear). So far I have found the Tennesse Girls really tough, strong and fight dirty. The Bears ???