quasi Report This Comment Date: May 02, 2020 12:16PM
I spent some time (too much time) watching a couple of Youtube channels run by
guys who make overland trips in Oz. Lots of room to get away from it all in a
proper 4x4. Makes me wish we had Toyota 70 series over here, they're what a
truck should be, simple, tough, reliable, not these tarted up things we have.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 02:56AM
That's right q-man, it's just one big desert surrounded by coastal
settlements.
Just happens to be the best coastline in the world.
All 25,760Km of it (16,000 miles).
USA 19,924Km is (12,380 miles).
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 06:25AM
'berto - Aus does have some amazing coastline, but bang for buck I propose that
NZ is better.
And Canada has 243,042km (151,019 miles) of coastline.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 07:28AM
Yours is all the same GAK.
Ours is 4000km apart in all directions so we have everything except ice.
Who wants ice at the beach?
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 12:31PM
I have the good/bad fortune of living in the state with the most coastline in
the contiguous United States at 2170 kilometers (1350 miles). Only gigantic
Alaska way up there by itself on the other side of Canada (the world?) has more.
It's great for those who love the beach (I don't unless it's for
launching/landing my kayak), fishing (I can take it or leave it), or just being
on the water (big yes) but sucks big time if if you can't handle heat and
humidity for half the year and can be a literal disaster from tropical storms
for those same hot and humid months. I think the climate where I live is akin to
Brisbane; we're on almost exact opposite sides of the equator. Once you get away
from the coasts, except for the area around Mouseville (Orlando), it's not very
densely populated in the southern half of the state but it is mostly private
property taken up by cattle ranches, citrus groves, and sugar cane fields with
the Everglades taking up a huge portion of the southernmost bit of the mainland
portion of the state.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 04:19PM
quasi, I've been to Florida several times and have family that live around
'mouseville' ..I think it may be nice living there in the winters but with that
heat, humidity, and storms in the summer? No thanks..
I've trucked through 47 of the contiguous 48 and the Pacific Northwest has the
best climate and scenery IMHO..although I am really fucking tired of all the
rain we get in the winter...
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 07:05PM
pro, the summers are brutal here for sure. My youngest son, born and raised
here, was stationed in Tacoma when he was in the Air Force and loved it except
for all the rain. My middle son lives in upstate South Carolina where it, North
Carolina, and Georgia converge and the brutal part of the summer is only half as
long as Florida's and the winters are pretty mild plus the Blue Ridge Mountains
are nearby. I was there in SC from Oct. 2018 through March 2019 helping him with
some stuff and made a few trips to the mountains which was a treat for this
flatlander.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 03, 2020 09:28PM
If trucking through 47 states is true then I'd say you are pretty lucky
Pro.
The USA is some pretty amazing terrain. And there's heaps of it. Almost all of
it is useful.
Unlike South America's jungles and North America's snow and Australia's
deserts.
I know you weren't on holiday to 47 states, you were working but it's still good
bragging rights.