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Honduras is quite the "backwater" . . .





. . .So is Tunisia, but there ain't any water!

It didnt look that bad from the air.

Leesville, Louisiana....Ft. Polk!

Both on the Kintyre Peninsula, Scotland.

Heck anyone can drive there as long as you don't mind a sixty mile drive up and drive back on a two lane road but after sleeping in a tent in the rain at the Kennacraig ferry landing I climb on the bicycle and pedal towards Clachan. No town apparent from the road, just a gas station and little store. Shoulda been BFE, or at least about as BFE as Scotland can reasonably get, WOULDA been BFE fifty years ago in my youth.

But this is the age of the innernet and cable. The young guy behind the counter tells me that, thanks to the 'net he had become a huge NFL fan, was flying to Vegas next year to watch a game. Small world ennit?

Ten miles down the road, Killean (again no town visible) and a ruined chapel, 800 years old, roof all fallen in except for the crypt, sealed with an iron grate. Over the entrance carved in stone "Here Lie the Bones of the Largies." and inside a number of armored knight grave effigies, some graves despoiled. It was in a beautiful spot on the shore with a view of the Isle of Gigha, shoulda been tourist attraction. But a real creepy vibe. I'll bet that place could tell some stories, not sure I'd want to hear 'em all

I'd have to think about that. I've been to several of those backwaters. Hughes has to be in the top 3. I actually enjoyed Holy Cross, King Salmon/Nuknuk and Barter Island. Most people I know would rather be in Pt. Hope than Pt. Lay or Nuiqsut.

Out here in Aleutian Hell, False Pass and Nelson Lagoon are both pretty backwater. Cold Bay sucks too, but they do have those big-ast, paved, crossing runways that can handle a space shuttle allowing a direct all-weather flight to skANC. Further out, Nikolski.

I've heard it said, if Louisiana needed an enema, they would insert the nozzle right there...

I'm sure you're not the only one with that opinion...

It's 50 miles from my house.

DF

DF

That's not quite right! The enema should be inserted in Baton Rouge at the state legislature!!

drought

I've been to Leesville. My late cousin was a a school principle and counsel member in New Llano. There are a lot worse places on the planet.

Now, that's a hard one to refute...

May need two enema bags, probably more...

DF

East of Alexandria, LA heading towards Natchez, MS are several places that would have made good locations for the movie Deliverance

Future City, Illinois, just outside of Cairo.

Passed though a number of times on the way to goose hunting, never spent time there. All black population, extremely poor. Their homes are made from combinations of old barn siding and hammered tin cans. Drove through one time when there was a funeral procession: the casket was made of old plywood, etc.

A very ironic name, and quite depressing.

We have some "special" area in LA. If you get too far from the blacktop, be careful. When you run out of gravel and hit dirt, you done gone too far...

Years ago, I went with some other young folks, leaving Lafayette we went to Henderson, then down the Achafalaya River levee around 10 miles. Went to a local bar...

I was glad to get out of there,,, Those "river rats" can be a rough bunch.

Geneticists seek out isolated areas to study recessive genes. We have some pretty tightly bred native groups that are of interest to genetic scientists.

I guess it's OK to pick up a date at a family reunion. They seem to think so.

And that doesn't happen over night, it takes years, generations...

Over the years, I've seen Darwinism in reverse. There'll be a batch of kids, maybe one or two goes to school, leaves the nest. The remaining ones keep the home fires burning. After a few generations of "negative selection", strange things start to happen...

DF

I know the Salton Sea area, it's the real life version of "The Hills Have Eyes". Don't eat the fish out of there. They're toxic, full of selenium.

Hyde County N.C. not a traffic light in the entire county , the only jobs are guard at the prison or guide the goose hunters around Lake Mattamuskeet. Not a grocery store in the county have to ride 40 miles one way to Belhaven

Couple of places in Baja Mexico fishing somewhere in the La Paz region.

North Georgia back in 1971 and 1972....

WHERE THEY FILMED Deliverance... and when they WERE filming it....

All of the background people in the movie, were actually locals and they didn't
have to really do the make up etc routine on them....there were plenty of local people
just like they portrayed them in the movie......


other spot is where I live now......wasn't 23 years ago when I moved here...

but the drug use in our society, the welfare programs, legalizing dope etc..
its becoming like the Oregon version of Deliverance...2018 style.

Must have been Red's Levee Bar, near Bayou Benoit

Vidor, Tx & Jasper, Tx

There WAS a little town in Illinois, about seven miles from Hannibal MO, on US 36, that is now gone from the '93 flood. There was nothing there except a little motel, where some of us competitors would stay (for CHEAP) during the USPSA/IPSC Nationals. You had to go to Quincy or Hannibal to get something to eat, and the TVs were still black/white. It was a cheap place to stay, with a short drive to PASA Park, so it met our needs well enough (A roof over the head, little road noise) but it was about as backwards a place as I've ever been, excluding the Sioux Reservations in SD. I can't even recall the name of the place, but the big flood of '93 finished it off.