Not totally, I've been through SD twice in a car and spent time: Badlands, Wind Cave, Mount Rushmore.
Me: Portland Oregon.
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Not totally, I've been through SD twice in a car and spent time: Badlands, Wind Cave, Mount Rushmore.
Me: Portland Oregon.
khadaji2002
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Wow. Someone who's actually visited here. I live about an hour north of Rushmore. Hope you enjoyed the scenery here.
MichaelSTee
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Wow. Someone who's actually visited here. I live about an hour north of Rushmore. Hope you enjoyed the scenery here.
I've visited there also. Spent a week in the area about 5 yrs back. Loved Wind Cave, Custer State Park, Badlands, and of course Rushmore. And all the president statues in downtown. (It's funny how Google Street View has their faces blurred out.)
Timerover51
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Wow. Someone who's actually visited here. I live about an hour north of Rushmore. Hope you enjoyed the scenery here.
I am the only member of my family that has not visited South Dakota. I have been through Nebraska a couple of times, along with Wyoming and Utah. I have been in the Denver Airport if that counts for Colorado. I also spent a couple of summers at that lovely spot called Fort Riley, Kansas. I have been in Idaho.
Wow. Someone who's actually visited here. I live about an hour north of Rushmore. Hope you enjoyed the scenery here.
Very much, Wind Cave was one of the highlights of the trip (and set me up to become a caver in college - though I haven't been caving in quite a while now). I also really enjoyed the Badlands, though we kind of just drove through them. Mount Rushmore is quite impressive too. Oh, and I think our first night out from Minneapolis we made it to South Dakota, so the Turd Birds in the camp ground store were perhaps another highlight... Turd Birds were/are birds made from cow patties...
Timerover51
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Based on looking at profiles, we have a lot more than just 1 from Australia and New Zealand that are active in the Forum. The same holds true for the UK.
Kauai county, Hawaii
But also Chicago, IL if you get technical.
But also Chicago, IL if you get technical.
It definitely helps administration. There are some interesting peculiarities along these lines: no state-wide police force, just one per county. One single school district for the entire state ( while Rhode Island for example, smaller, has 47 ). A single mayor for each county. And so on. An odd place, and not exactly a bastion of things Traveller : /
But hard to complain, overall.
KyleLittle
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Where are we Living?
Just relocated from Ottawa to Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
Just relocated from Ottawa to Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
Timerover51
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You are up where it gets a bit chilly. You can join me and Aramis as the cold-weather warriors. Are you getting any daylight at all at this time?
I'm no longer in the subarctic portion of Alask. I'm now in temperate rainforests in Oregon.
There are 4 things I don't miss at all:
- lack of winter sunlight
- lack of summer darkness
- Subzero temperatures
- clouds of mosquitos
More seriously, if the darkness gets to one, a full spectrum flourscent or a good halogen lamp can massively reduce the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (aka, "Winter blues" or "cabin fever").
KyleLittle
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It doesn't get light until lunch time and I go home from work in the dark. The last sunrise and sunset for 2018 is on 5 December, 1329 and 1401.
Timerover51
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Keep us posted as to how things are going. Those sunless days can get to a person.
Aramis, you might no longer be in Alaska, but you are still a sourdough.
We've got a surprising number of folks in the greater Portland area. For a while I was in a Role20 campaign with at least 3 of us (I'm not sure if any of them post here).
I live in the Southeast U.S. currently. Snow feaks out the local populace. Two years ago, yes just two years ago, the county got 4 trucks to help spread salt and sand when the roads ice up. Before then they had no sand/salt spreading trucks.
The road crews would have to spread it by hand with a shovel from the back of small trucks.
What do they buy when it snows ? Bread and milk. I have no idea why.
The road crews would have to spread it by hand with a shovel from the back of small trucks.
What do they buy when it snows ? Bread and milk. I have no idea why.
French Toast. :toast:
(Eggs are the other stereotypical Imminent Meteorological Apocalypse purchase.)
More likely it's because those items don't keep well and the stuff bought a week ago will spoil before the snow melts.
That's what they're stockpiling against, anyhow (rationally or not).
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