Well, there is If you are in Texas, you have to go to Austin. It is in the hill country... nice rolling hills, nice VW-friendly town, lots of GREAT beer.... very artsy-type town. Thats it.. unless you want to tour the brewery in Shiner TX (The BEST beer brewed ANYWHERE) Other than that, try & sleep through as much of Texas as possible. I have lived all over the US, and lived here (in houston) for the last 5 years. Texas is the single most miserable place in the U.S.... except maybe for Kansas. If you can, avoid Texas altogether - and Oklahoma Check out Colorado (Durango is GREAT - lived there 10yrs). The entire state is the most beautiful of the 50 Go through all of Arizona.. it isn't all desert, and what is desert is absolutely gorgeous - the mountains around Flagstaff are beautiful. Go through Utah - the south has Moab (redrock formations) and the north has mountains. I can't speak for nevada - but it should be low on your list... New Mexico - the north is great there too - go to Taos, and Santa Fe, but skip Albuquerque & anything south of it if you can... But as for Texas, if Ohio is the armpit of the U.S., Texas is the (expletive - body part further south on the human anatomy) Mark Leaving in 4 hours to go camping on the beach in Florida, because every beach in Texas is polluted, & crammed with a lot of people I DON'T want to meet.
---Ian Cameron <ianc@UVIC.CA> wrote: > > Thanks to all who answered my request. My list of 'must sees' is now > 20-odd long. I suspect I won't have time for all of them, but I'll do my > best. Interesting that not one person suggested anything at all to see in > Texas. There must be SOMETHING in a state that's almost 1/4 the size of B.C.!! > == Mark 87 Westfalia Gl 84 Scirocco 8v http://members.tripod.com/~jehanno _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com |
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