Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire The most backwater place you ever spent time in.

Can't say that I've ever spent any time in any kind of serious backwater. But it made me think of a Canadian acqaintence of mine who is a Captain in their military.

He had done a stint in Haiti and a couple in Afghanistan.

He said that he much preferred Afghanistan,...said the people there live a fairly crude, basic existence, but they got up every day and did their work,..took care of their business.

He said the people in Haiti just sat in squalor day in and day out doing nothing.

That is all

Washington DC........... largest cess pool on earth!!

A young man (then) that I used to work with hunted around
Whitts springs, but I was never there. We would eat lunch down by the Buffalo River between Mt. Judea and
Western Grove and watch the Elk. That was before hunting was opened up, and there was some nice bulls there most days. miles

cuznguido,

"I wouldn't have appeared so hostile if you hadn't given every impression you were gonna steal anything loose."

Which one was you - one of the three-toothers in that shanty town, or the old codger at the end of the road ?

I'm not sure why anyone would think my wife and I riding around in an old Chebby seedan would look threatening, and I didn't even have my burglary tools with me !

Myron

I originally put that down as bait for a certain member from Crackwhore Holler, but sadly he never bit.

Port au Prince, Haiti during Baby Doc's time (80-81) was pretty nasty.....probably still is. Antananarivo, Madagascar was pretty "backwater" in the late 70's.

Chung Ju, South Korea
Sheik Isa, Bahrain
American Samoa

Numerous points around AK: Naknek, Chicken, Bettles, Shemya (I might have a story about getting drunk there and causing a wee bit of trouble - note to self, there is nowhere to run when you're on an island!). Sand Point, Manley Hot Springs (There's a Medal of Honor recipient that used to run an air taxi service there).

And a good number of places in the south that certainly qualified for backwater. I remember one BBQ joint we were given directions to near McAllister Army Depot, OK. They must have laughed their asses off as we set off for some dinner. It had the name (forget the specific name) and Bar B Q spray painted on the outer garage wall. We just happened to have one each Englander and a black fella with us. The music stopped when we walked in.....

I can remember another time getting lost in either Virginia or West Virginia. We came around the corner on an old road and there sat the General Lee....I schitt you not! I thought I was going to die laughing.

Mombasa, Africa 1977

My girlfriend is from Dwight. When folks from Dwight want to experience backwater, they go to Kelso!

Grandfield, Oklahoma and Stamps, Arkansas.


What a couple o' $ch!tholes.

Otis, otherwise known as Scrotis, Oregon. Could be a beautiful place if they nuked it and started over from scratch, but my hell, what a backwardsass dump! Every other shanty has a blue tarp for a roof, broke down vehicles in the yards, three legged dogs, and the most inbred looking people you've ever seen! Reminds me of The Hills Have Eyes.

Second is Hilldale, Utah, home of polygamists. You want to talk about backwater....that's it.

JOKE. C'mon man.

Heck, that's dang near a metropolis compared to Pipe Springs on the rez a few miles down the road in AZ.

Geno

I spent a week in Wolf Point Montana visiting my sis. I was 15. It was August. No car. No friends. Great time...

Tulsa OK lol. Cracker Barrel there went silent and this hispanic got a lot of stares sat in the very back that night. Made my wife and brother in law uncomfortable.
Northern AZ, around Fredonia, Jacob Lake and that stuff is pretty deliverance like, can't imagine what colorado city is like if I thought those were like that.
Border towns in AZ are pretty weird too.
Of all the places tho, I would have to say Elfrida AZ and that Sulfur Springs Valley is pretty odd. I think the devil roams that valley at will. I've read too many kids killing their parents/grandparents and murders in general for a population of that size.

Kique

Houma, New Iberia, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Borneo, dining with the village chief in his thatch hut.

How could I forget the booming hotspots of

Hyampon and Hayfork CA

Mora, NM

Pittsburg....................TX

Rosa's tienda at Km 39 in Baja south of Tijuana (back in the 70's not sure it still exists)

Lovely places, all, but not for the folks who are

"Fools for the City"

Geno

I respectfully disagree. DC is a great place and full of wonderful history.

Every American should visit DC at least once.