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I do because this is actually possible.

From www.weather.com -
"Mostly Cloudy / Windy
Strong winds may be causing power outages."


After the storms last week and now this hellish wind the guttering from one side of my house is wrecked and on the ground.

Hate this place on so many levels.

Come on out to the PNWet. You can ride year 'round, and we have these things called curves in the roads.


Keep yer head down.

calamari kid wrote:Come on out to the PNWet. You can ride year 'round, and we have these things called curves in the roads.


Keep yer head down.

or come down a lil south where half your paycheck can pay for a studio apartment, quakes will wake you in the middle of the night, homeless people treat your door way as a shooting gallery/bathroom, hipsters on fixies think they own the whole damn road (and also believe you wont just elbow them right out of the fucking way), coffee will take the rest of your paycheck, and . . . . you can ride some of the most amazing roads the world has to offer.

California? No thanks.
PNW? Hell yeah if there are any jobs to be had.
Trying to convince the family that Colorado is nice, since it is.

Been dealing with the wind, the heat, the ice, the flooding, the tornadoes, and the goat-roper idiots, and sraight arrow roads for my entire life and begining to think serious change is necessary.
It's just getting to me.

Right now however there are seemingly endless family obligations to deal with, so if we were to pull up and move it would mean moving at least two parents with us. That isn't really a workaable solution right now.

Oh well, I'll press on and just find some way to friggin enjoy this souless waste.
Probably just need to find a bike that can devour the hours of asphalt necessary to get someplace interesting at a rapid enough rate to enjoy the trip in a weekend.

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Man, these expansion joints are killing me, I wonder if it would be any better at 100mph...



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Nope...

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I was there once, and remember some roads similar to:

Yes, I have always hated Kansas.

Kansas? Nah, but The Dixie Dreggs? I just can't get with that stuff.

My mother in-law is originally from Kansas.


Yep, I hate Kansas.

Is Kansas worse than Oklahoma? (And OK is worse than NJ, strangely enough.)

Also, for what it's worth: come to the Mid-Atlantic (Balt-DC). Warm your hands over the nice warm fire we call the Federal Gumbint. We have work... we have other problems, of course, but we do have jobs...

--Jaeger

Jaeger wrote:Is Kansas worse than Oklahoma? (And OK is worse than NJ, strangely enough.)

Yes, if only because it takes so damn long to cross it.

I'd rather run through Nebraska four times than Kansas once, and not just because of all the cool kids in Omaha.

/RM

I can feel your pain, Bo_9.

I was waiting for Sid's response.

Poor Kansas.

Sid- Did it rain and sleet mud over there yesterday too?

I've never gone out after a rain to a dirt covered car before.
Weird.

Damn. Even Moon Unit Gingrich hates Kansas.

Come to Colorado.

It's sunnier than the PNW.
It's got less Californians than California. (Just barely)
You can still buy a home and land for a price that isn't the same as a small African country's GDP.
Also, since we made smoking tobacco in bars illegal, we decided to make weed "legal".

A special note to Californians and Texans, we are all a hybrid group of human/mountain goats who live on the jagged rocky outcroppings hanging from the side of the mountains, also we all ski to work and there is over 2000 inches of snow per week. Your friends who are telling you to come here because it is amazing and sunny and beautiful are full of shit, it's all a lie, we eat babies in our igloos while burning immigrants for heat. Everyone who lives in Colorado is a monster spawned in the bowels of hell.

Seriously though, this state is amazing, we get used to how beautiful it is here, I can see mountains from nearly every room in my house, and I complain because I don't feel like my view is "majestic" enough. It's true we spend a lot of time chugging our butternut-squash-and-chocolate-stout-micro-brews and the official state smell is patchouli/rock climbing chalk and Slime Tire Sealant. And yes, you will occasionally get invited by one of your friends to "jog to work".
Yes, there is a huge percentage of people here who are very healthy.



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The midwest is a fantastic place to be FROM... please leave, it's inhospitable for a reason, the universe is telling you to move. I left rural Iowa almost 20 years ago... I haven't looked back.

Another fun fact, I've worn sandals every day for over a year. Yeah, it's that nice here.

MagnusTheBuilder wrote:A special note to Californians and Texans, we are all a hybrid group of human/mountain goats who live on the jagged rocky outcroppings hanging from the side of the mountains, also we all ski to work and there is over 2000 inches of snow per week. Your friends who are telling you to come here because it is amazing and sunny and beautiful are full of shit, it's all a lie, we eat babies in our igloos while burning immigrants for heat. Everyone who lives in Colorado is a monster spawned in the bowels of hell. .

No shit. I've been there maybe 20 times over the last 30 years. Fucked up place.

(In fact, there's a 99% chance I'll be going out there, to Loveland, end of May to see my cousin. 50% chance I'll be riding the Sportster to tell you all in person to fuck off and buy me some of that great beer you all love to gloat over.

LOL!

My wife won't move to Colorado because "it snows all the time".

Bo_9 wrote:I do because this is actually possible.

From www.weather.com -
"Mostly Cloudy / Windy
Strong winds may be causing power outages."


After the storms last week and now this hellish wind the guttering from one side of my house is wrecked and on the ground.

Hate this place on so many levels.

Santorum just won Kansas, doesn't THAT make you happy??

Folks lived in Wichita for a couple years. Visited once, and hope never to set foot in that bass ackwards place again...


Why is Oklahoma so windy?


Because Kansas sucks...

You know a freind of mine from way back emailed me out of the blue to say "Ron Paul Can Win!" claimed that RP was second only to Romney and turning out for the Kansas caucus could push him over the edge. Afte a short review of why Paul was un-electable I broke out the hard facts that Paul was second to last in front of only Huntsman who was no longer running. I've never heard back from that "friend"....

But to the matter at hand-
Yep Kansas Sucks.
Yep Colorado is awesome. (unless you are from Texas than it sucks)
But Kansas sucks.

Kansas exists so that Erico Motorsports can sell me a new rear tire every time I reach Denver. It's almost a 20-year tradition now.

The first time, there was some kind of low-pressure storm system in Nebraska, which caused a howling wind out of the south the entire way across the Plains. By the time I reached Denver, my rear tire was totally bald at about a 15-degree lean to the left. And my neck was as fucked up as a football bat. I spent three days checking out Denver, recovering, getting a new tire to replace the new one I had just had installed a week before in Philly. I liked Denver, but made it all the way to San Diego that trip.

Tilted Continent Theory: The Earth is not round, sea level is not consistent, none of that crap is true. Specifically, the NorthEastern USA is much higher up than the SouthWestern USA. This causes anyone and everything loose, unbalanced, off-kilter or not properly tied down to roll or slide toward Southern California. The Rocky Mountains are kind of like a speed bump in the middle, which causes anything without enough momentum to get stuck and puddle in the Denver-Boulder area.

Bo_9 wrote:LOL!

My wife won't move to Colorado because "it snows all the time".

lol! I'll have to remember that next time I see her.

Bo_9 wrote:Sid- Did it rain and sleet mud over there yesterday too?

I've never gone out after a rain to a dirt covered car before.
Weird.

Not that I noticed. Just rain and sleet, which I didn't see anything in the forecast about sleet.


Now the earlier storm that caused a momentary opening of the gates of hell in south P-town I did notice some mud in the rain on my storm door.

And here you can stand on the continental divide and pee in Kansas and California's water supply at the same time.

AZRider wrote: Tilted Continent Theory: The Earth is not round, sea level is not consistent, none of that crap is true. Specifically, the NorthEastern USA is much higher up than the SouthWestern USA. This causes anyone and everything loose, unbalanced, off-kilter or not properly tied down to roll or slide toward Southern California. The Rocky Mountains are kind of like a speed bump in the middle, which causes anything without enough momentum to get stuck and puddle in the Denver-Boulder area.

--Jaeger

SidVicious wrote:Not that I noticed. Just rain and sleet, which I didn't see anything in the forecast about sleet.

Yeah, I'd never seen that much mud on a parking lot (and everything in it) after that much rain and sleet. The ice that was still sitting on my wiper was brown.

The Shifty Jesus wrote:And here you can stand on the continental divide and pee in Kansas and California's water supply at the same time.

Or you could piss in a can and call it Coors.

tucko wrote:Or you could piss in a can and call it Coors.