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No less creepy, trust me. Reminds me of something out of the movie Se7en!
 
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Parowan Gap, Utah
 
RR7 said:
Are a lot of these older pics, or are you just out touring the country? Either way, keep sharing!
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Just got back from a 10 day "vacation", drove a kid to college in St Paul, did about 4,500 miles round trip, going to slowly go over the photos and post interesting ones.

Was a long, hard trip with too much driving to exploration ratio. But we had fun and places we did not get to hike are added to the list for when we do get the time...

First day was California to Nevada to South West Utah.
 
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The Badlands @TRNP, North Dakota. We visited the Badlands NP in South Dakota about 20 years ago and it is wonderful, however, to do it this time we would have to go through South Dakota which is, frankly, my least favorite state to traverse. It is flat and boring like most of the midwest, but has these cheap advertising signs everywhere for hundreds of miles. I was ready to kill someone at the end of the last time we drove through it, so decided to give North Dakota a try.

FWIW, the badlands in ND are not as dramatic as the ones in SD, but there is a lot more color and a lot more wildlife to observe, add the fact that ND itself is actually very pretty and Bismarck had one of the best Indian dinners I ever had, and I would recommend North Dakota over South Dakota any day of the week
 
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We were doing a BLM road somewhere in Utah, pretty much by ourselves, when we heard a small plane, surprisingly he chose to land somewhere on a bit of flat nothingness. We yelled at him to see if he was OK, he was out and ignored us, maybe taking pictures of his plane in the middle.

Research shows it to be a Zenith STOL CH701 - a kitplane designed for short/no airport landing / taking off.
 
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South unit, TRNP, North Dakota
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You met my buddy Bob! We got acquainted when I passed through that part of Teddy Roosevelt in 2019. I told him all about watching the Buffalo Bison's home opener 2 weeks earlier. He likes the Bisons but hates the Bills........and yeah, crossing S. Dakota is about as boring as it gets (though the western end is gorgeous). And it's nice to hear that someone else was as disgusted by all that signage as I was. What a blight on the landscape.
 
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I've got a photo of Mt. Hood from the 7th floor of the VA hospital on a clear blue sky day. Now if I could just figure out how to get it from my cell to here.
 
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It is in nd of in the middle of nowhere. The road there felt as lonely or more so than Nevada route 50...
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Your photo inspired me to pull out my Rand McNally (old guy porn) to see where Medicine Rocks is located, and you weren't kidding about it being in the middle of nowhere. But it sent me down a whole 'nother rabbit hole as far as side attractions go. If I actually pull off next May's road trip, the route is getting more interesting all the time........
 
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