Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:41:08 -0800
Reply-To:     "frank n. furter" <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         "frank n. furter" <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Southwest advice
Comments: To: Ian Cameron <ianc@UVIC.CA>
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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

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