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Went duck hunting on the Illinois River in 2003, we stayed in Liver Pool Illinois, Very crazy people! love it!

I suspect the Hi Line where I was raised and still reside is probably sort of a backwater place.

I see that Browning made someone's list a while back.


Funny, Browning is a pretty well stocked town.

Browning MT is one of the few places that as an adult, I’ve felt uncomfortable in broad daylight.

I have been to a couple of remote locations..
















Welcome to Durka Durka Raq.

I don't know about you Mac, but, a few times, when I got home, I wanted to eat a bowl of U.S.A. dirt.

Hands down, Sierra Leon back in the early 90's. By far the most nastiest out of control schithole in the world. Makes Afghanistan look like a resort. By the second week I kind of got used to seeing people brutally murdered in the street daily. The RUF was the most unpredictable, crazy and violent group of retards I have ever witnessed on this earth. They would warm up with some kidnapping and rape until they got all hopped up on drugs and put their crazy colored wigs on and went to shooting and hacking people to death.

And Africa as a whole, pretty much every place I have been in Africa was the complete butt crack of the world. There may be some bearable places on that continent but I have never been there. The natives suck, their bugs suck, their snakes really suck...Africa just sucks.

I remember in Iraq, nice houses (by Iraqi standards) next to lots full of trash, and goats eating the trash, and the locals eating the goats.

And nobody bathed.

I was at Chapman in Khowst during 04-05. 09 - 2010 I was in Iraq and we were training and working with ISOF.

You beat me to it Mackey. I’ve got pics of the same type of terrain. The Iran-Iraq border is a complete wasteland!

Stateside I would say 29 Palms, CA would ranks near the top for me.

The Salton sea is truly a weird backwater place.

Yep.

The LA Offshore Oil Platform (LOOP) is out from there. I served a 6 year term on the LA Board of Regents. A fellow Regent was a ship builder and we were invited down to Grand Isle for the sea trials of a brand new 105' Coast Guard cutter his company had built. Coast Guard people were on board, but the maker provided the pilot to run it. Coast Guard won't operate a boat until it's officially theirs. We went out and circled the LOOP, came back to port. Quite a ride. That thing would do 40 knots in the open Gulf, seemed like it was moving pretty fast, had two 4,000 HP British diesels.

Paul is right.

DF

I haven't had the privilege of Point Hope, but I have done Mountain Village, St. Mary's, Holy Cross, King Salmon, Nek Nek, Bethel (which is an improvement over many), Chicken, and various others.

I stopped in a gas station there once and there was no restroom, the non english speaking man just pointed to a back door that lead into an alley way of sorts, That alley was a disgusting and gross as any third world country slum. My only question is how is there so much human feces and no toilet paper................ maybe I am just spoiled.

Ross River, Yukon Territory - the only place I have been where the bartender was in an encaged closure and it only had a small opening for him to take the money and then slide the drinks out.

Some jungle town that I can't even remember the name of. in Panama.

Thule, Greenland many years ago.

drover

Anyone been thru Cut and Shoot, TX...?

DF

Delta still has 4 flights a day, to and from Atlanta. Other airlines with 3-4 flights a day to and from Houston and DFW.

So, quite a busy airport, serves a large NE LA, SE AR and MS Delta area. You can see where Delta got it's name.

DF

I spend a couple of days in Bemidji every month. About 2 hours from here. Most backwater place for me would be hard to pin down, in a lifetime of intentionally going to such places.

One that stands out is Ruso, ND. Population, 4. Had a bar there, the Goose Nest as I recall. The owner, an old, fat, ugly, mean lady happened to be a state legislator from the area. I was in there once, cooling down from hunting sharptailed grouse and hungarian partridge.

She was quite intoxicated, and decided to give me bunches of crap. Strange, as the guy I was hunting with and I were the only two in the place except for her. In a town of four, just about everybody who comes in such an establishment is from out of town, so the fact that we were strangers should not have raised her ire. I had a very strong impulse to smack her ill-fitting dentures out of her mouth on the way out, but decided that discretion would indeed be the better part of valor in that instance.

Diyarbakir, Turkey
Agadez, Niger

Tetlin. 28 of the 34 students in the k-12 school had the same dad. Dogs were so inbred that they had two eyes on one side of their face like halibut. There were bullet holes in the school from a guy who lost his wife in a basketball game.

Diego Garcia