OT Dakotas

RockRon · Jun 30, 2011

I just returned from a trip to the eastern Dakotas. While there I couldn't stand up straight the whole time. Finally realized that a lifetime of working the hills here in PA must have made one leg longer than the other to keep me even. All that flat land out there scares me! Good to back back on "level" ground!

oldtanker · Jun 30, 2011

LOL I live about 60 miles on the MN side of the Red River. Standard joke here is that the ND state tree is the telephone plow and the hils are man made.....rest of the country call em over passes!

Rick

ChrisinMO · Jun 30, 2011

I remember one trip I made from NE Minnesota to
Idaho by way of ND. My plan was to make it to
Bismark late in the evening and continue the trip
the next day. Well, there was a mild northern
snowstorm and so I was slowed in getting across
Minnesota. Late into the night I was driving
through North Dakota. There was a good strong
north wind that night. Fighting that north wind I
would approach an overpass and drive through the
drift on its eastern side. Under the overpass I
was shielded from the wind. Then drive through the
drift on the west side. And get hit by that north
wind and pushed into the left lane of the highway.
It didn't matter how hard I tried, I always got
shoved by that wind and then I corrected. Boy did
that get tiring. I finally gave up around
Jamestown, ND and got a room for what remained of
the night.

Christopher

big fred · Jun 30, 2011

It's all a matter of perspective. I had a business trip to Philly a couple years back. When I met with our supplier, I asked "what were those low rolling hills I flew over on the way in? He said "Fred, yer killin' me. Those are the Allegheny Mountains". Sure didn't look very mountainous compared to the Rockies or Cascades.

Mike in SD · Jun 30, 2011

Eastern ND where you can watch you dog run away for 2 days.

55 50 Ron · Jul 1, 2011

I grew up in Towner County (north central) ND. The land is gently rolling there, but in the Red River Valley (far eastern ND) the land is absolutely flat and it's true as you said about the hills are man made and called overpasses!

But that flat land is some of the most fertile land in the world.

Dave2N · Jul 1, 2011

They ain't that mountainous up that way; go a little farther south down into PA or W. VA and they are more like mountains, maybe not quite the Cascades or the Rockies but still somewhat mountainous. There are places down in central PA where you can be driving on some of those roads and the front end of you vehicle will meet the azz end of your vehicle.

Anyways-I think the Alleghenys are supposed to be the oldest mountains in the US of A. No wonder they look a little bit worn down.

big fred · Jul 1, 2011

Well, I had to admit they looked a heck of a lot more mountainous than the Turtle Mountains just north of where I grew up in North Dakota.

oldtanker · Jul 1, 2011

That's where my daughter and her family live......yup they sure look like hills to me!

Rick

Fullers Farmalls · Jul 2, 2011

I agree with you there. I'm in AZ and you can see a good ways. Back in south western PA its maybe a mile or 2 max. and thats 1 hill to the next

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