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Any of several Sioux Rez in SD True dat! They sell beer right out of their trailer houses according to the plywood signs. One even advertised beer and 24 hour porn. I'm not even kidding
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Butedale in Canada. Ruby in Australia. Qualls in Okalhoma. Hmmm... there have been quite a few, on several continents  I generally enjoy backwater places, though eventually they make me want to go to a real town for a few hours anyway.
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Anyone that believes Russia is a 1st world country hasn't been there. I was once served a chunk of lard as the entree on a flight from Semipalatinsk to Moscow. After 3 months in the USSR I was hungry enough to eat it.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier
Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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Sprague, Manitoba Also, somewhere in between Knoxville, TN and the Smoky's there was a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood nailed to a post alongside the road and in crude letters written in red spray paint it said: "BOBS BOBAQ" with an arrow pointing down a two track into the woods. Now I'm sure 'ol Bob could BBQ with the best of 'em but it kinda made ya wonder where he got the meat...  If you try and take the back way from RT 92 outside Williamsburg, KY towards Jellico, TN and you go over Wolf Ridge, there's a place way back there that sounds a lot like your BOBAQ shack. It's just over the TN line, and the KY side of the line is dry. I drove fast, going by that place-- thought I heard banjos.
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You live a sheltered life if you think coos bay is backwater. Its been years since I"ve been there, but was thinking the same...
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Anyone that believes Russia is a 1st world country hasn't been there. I was once served a chunk of lard as the entree on a flight from Semipalatinsk to Moscow. After 3 months in the USSR I was hungry enough to eat it.
mike r I was in Moscow a couple years ago, it wasn't that bad. Of course I didn't beyond the city.
"Life is tough, even tougher if your stupid"
John Wayne
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I was gonna say Browning or Lame Deer or name any other rezzville in Montana, but Shrap beat me to it.
The closest I ever came to a true Dueling Banjos experience was on an Indian reservation in Oregon when I was working with the tribal foresters. At some little ville on the way to the timber, we stopped to grab some coffee and junk from a scruffy little bodega with a gas pump kind of place.
Strange vibe, I bought my stuff, we piled back in the truck, and I just couldn't resist asking "What the heck just happened." Forester in the back went "twangity twang twang." We were laughing so hard we had to wait a minute before hitting the road.
Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.
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A camp on the mid-SE coast of the Caspian Sea. Rethinking, 80 miles offshore Caspian Sea living "on" a man made island in a retired Russian cruise ship, the Schotov, first shot below. Winters sucked. Summers were somewhat incredible as the seals emerged. The island(s). Unless one was single it was a pretty lonely for a 28 day hitch. Was on the Parker Rig when they were spudding the first Kashagan well. They added accommodations to the rig by putting living quarters on top of the EMD diesels that powered the rig and the sewage treatment system was basically recycling the waste water so you had a pair or ear plugs in your ears and nose when trying to sleep. Kind of a cross between sleeping on top of an old locomotive that was running through a sewage treatment plant. Looks like Atyrau has built up quite a bit since '99, it was definitely a model of post Soviet satellite architecture when I was there and that's the most back woods place I've been.
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South Louisiana has some pretty isolated places.
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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A little town on a river north of me....the day we boated in , to pick up our air dropped fuel..that never came ...they opened up the town store ( that BTW /the door knob and lock hasp was all shot up the nite prior, stole smokes and toilet paper ,beer).....at 1st they didn't want to sell fuel to the white men ....they/she did, as we left she wanted to be sure that we were going to move on and not camp nearby... As she couldn't garrentee our safety in the evening....the town had like 80 people max, about a 1/3 with the same last names..... Shot their own chit up they did ...😯
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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sounds like Bethel or some such from what I've heard.
Maybe it wasn't bethel, but I heard friends say they made sure they went by on the river in the dark so they wouldn't get shot at...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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sounds like Bethel or some such from what I've heard.
Maybe it wasn't bethel, but I heard friends say they made sure they went by on the river in the dark so they wouldn't get shot at... Alaska's legends are longer, darker, and deeper than ordinary reality, thank goodness, though I'm sure many of them have grains of truth to them. I wasn't entirely comfortable running the Yukon River as a Scandinorske in solo mode. What I learned a couple years later was that having a few coastal Natives in tow was cause for more suspicion. I've never trusted strangers who were high on anything however, and therein is the stuff of many of the legendary problem interactions that are proffered as 'typical'.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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In the early seventies, while working at the rocket test lab at Edwards AFB, I stayed for six weeks in Boron,CA.
Terminal boredom, good thing I was drinking a lot back then. I was replacing a guy that was fired and had to stay until a replacement was hired.
Was never so glad to get home. I've spent a lot of time in Ridgecrest working projects out of China Lake and never felt a need to drive down to Boron. I actually like Ridgecrest.
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SBDCO,
Spent a lot of time in Wewa, the only part about the area was the Dead lakes for fishing, frogging and hog hunting.
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Nyamandalovau,Zimbabwe.
Killed the crap out of the local Kudu and reedbuk.
Got my ass shot at by "rebels." They missed.
Steve
DZ, did you shoot back?
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Little Diomede, AK tops my list. Have been to a number of "special" places in AK, but I've yet to see anything like it.
A fuel stop in Dakar Senegal, gave me the impression that it looked to be a bit of a [bleep] hole.
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In the early seventies, while working at the rocket test lab at Edwards AFB, I stayed for six weeks in Boron,CA.
Terminal boredom, good thing I was drinking a lot back then. I was replacing a guy that was fired and had to stay until a replacement was hired.
Was never so glad to get home. I've spent a lot of time in Ridgecrest working projects out of China Lake and never felt a need to drive down to Boron. I actually like Ridgecrest. Shoulda seen Kramer's Junction out that way about 50 years ago. It's bigger now and the gas stations are always busy. Not back then, flashing yellow/red light depending on which direction you were headed. Could be seen for miles and miles coming towards it. Gas station, I believe one only, but maybe two and even a trailer house or three I think. Had my first taste of alkali desert water from the drinking fountain at the gas station. Won't forget that pleasure!. Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Oh yea! Trona, Ca. Spooky!
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shaman,
I ran into a couple of the hostile places like you described in Kentucky in south eastern Ohio some years ago.
We were out just driving around the more remote parts of the state, and as usual, if I see some little side road, I turn down it to see "where it goes". We ended up in some small group of houses at what appeared to be the end of the road, and amid some very hostile people. I couldn't turn around and get out of there fast enough !
Another time, I was looking for access to some Mead Corp. property that was open to the public for hunting, etc, and turned into a little one lane gravel road that the map showed as ending at the Mead land. I ended up in some guys little farmyard just short of the Mead property, and with a hostile owner. I beat a hasty retreat from that one also.
Myron I wouldn't have appeared so hostile if you hadn't given every impression you were gonna steal anything loose.
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