Glamdring804 Posted December 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 17 hours ago, Kaymyth said: I kind of love the fact that this thread exists. If you by some weird twist of fate wind up in Kansas City, I will totes introduce you to all of the cool nerds. (But seriously, I will be very happy to see you get out of the desolate tundra in which you now live, wherever you end up.) Oi! Bozeman is not a desolate tundra! It's a vibrant and dynamic college town nestled in the corner of a broad valley, with beautiful, towering mountains in both directions. It's certainly better than Kansas Ciy, which is just flat and sticky 17 hours ago, Kaymyth said: Heh. Now I am picturing Chaos teaching calculus with the power of Wayne stick figures. This ranks very high up on my list of Best Mental Images. ... Damnit, @Chaos, why wasn't this a thing in class? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 23 minutes ago, Glamdring804 said: Oi! Bozeman is not a desolate tundra! It's a vibrant and dynamic college town nestled in the corner of a broad valley, with beautiful, towering mountains in both directions. But...it's so north. Your winters are scary. Heck, it got below zero this weekend here and I barely survived. I mean, college towns are always fun places, but if I were there I'd be that one idiot lobbying the administration to install human-sized heated hamster tubes connecting all the buildings so that lizard-blooded folk like me could traverse campus without dying. What I'm saying is, I'm just not built for winter. Of course, as a redhead of Scotch-Irish descent, I'm not built for the tropics, either, as I tend to burn if the sun so much as sneezes in my direction. So I live in a middle latitude where the extremes of the seasons only try to kill me a little bit. 23 minutes ago, Glamdring804 said: It's certainly better than Kansas Ciy, which is just flat and sticky Flat. *looks out at the metro, with its weird tangle of roads designed to go around all of the weird hills and river ravines like some eldritch rune that keeps a restless Elder God asleep below the city* *thinks about some of the crazy hills that I've gotten stuck on when they ice over. or that one awful hill on the bike trails that I tried to bike all the way up once, lost momentum, and fell over* *giggles uncontrollably* Bweeheehee! *tearwipe* Hee. Sorry. I know that we're flat compared to mountains, but you want to see what real flat looks like, go visit the Kansas-Colorado border. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soyperson Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 2 minutes ago, Kaymyth said: Bweeheehee! *tearwipe* Hee. Sorry. I know that we're flat compared to mountains, but you want to see what real flat looks like, go visit the Kansas-Colorado border. Or anywhere between Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois! *ahem* 2015 family road trip to Omaha *ahem* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 1 minute ago, bleeder said: Or anywhere between Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois! *ahem* 2015 family road trip to Omaha *ahem* Heh. You've got Nebraska right. When going west, we'll head through Denver because even the KS-CO route is less dull than the NE one. But Missouri has hills, at least, and even Kansas isn't too bad through the eastern third of the state. In Iowa they're a bit more rolling, but at least it's not the never-ending oceanic flatness that is NE / western KS / eastern CO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soyperson Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Kaymyth said: Heh. You've got Nebraska right. When going west, we'll head through Denver because even the KS-CO route is less dull than the NE one. But Missouri has hills, at least, and even Kansas isn't too bad through the eastern third of the state. In Iowa they're a bit more rolling, but at least it's not the never-ending oceanic flatness that is NE / western KS / eastern CO. It was particularly jarring for me, because I have lived in a mountain town for the past 7 years of my life. Edited December 20, 2016 by bleeder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 1 minute ago, bleeder said: It was particularly jarring for me, because I have lived in a mountain town for the past 7 years of my life. Heh. Yeah, I remember the topography shock when we moved from the mountainous Southwest to northeast Missouri when I was a kid. (Though I was amazed enough at seeing so much green that it lessened things a bit.) But one gains new appreciation for hills once one has driven from KC to Denver and found that the only major topographical landmarks of note are windmills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glamdring804 Posted December 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 Heh. Don't forget the eastern Dakotas. Now that area is flat. I go partially insane every time I drive through there. Everything is just so uniform, all the way to the horizon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 6 minutes ago, Glamdring804 said: Heh. Don't forget the eastern Dakotas. Now that area is flat. I go partially insane every time I drive through there. Everything is just so uniform, all the way to the horizon. I went through a Dakota once. The experience was so unnerving that I blocked it out of my memory. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soyperson Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 Tell you what's really desolate, the drive from Senoia, Georgia, to Orlando, Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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