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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Dignity: of Earth & Sky | Travel South Dakota
Would like to travel to South Dakota at some point. One of the states I have not been to yet. And this looks like something worthwhile to see.
Have not been to Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, South Carolina, South Dakota, Georgia, but am not sure about Maine, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut. Depends on the routes we took going back and forth from the Milwaukee area to Cape Cod back in the 1960s. Think we did go through Rhode Island when went to see Gettysburg on the way to the Cape and up through Niagara Falls on way back.
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It seems that there are some beautiful parts of the country you haven’t yet explored. Some states, like Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, are beautiful nearly everywhere just driving through, but especially if you get off the freeways and explore a little. Some on your list, like New Jersey and Rhode Island, can give you a bad impression if you just stay on I-95 and think you’ve seen them or just use Newark Airport while traveling. Rhode Island, though small, has some lovely areas. New Jersey? I’ve spent weekends for ten years in New Jersey near Trump’s golf course, involved with horses and fox hunting. It’s one of the most beautiful parts of the country, and a very different world from Newark and Jersey City. It’s filled with mountains, trees, fields, flowers. As for South Dakota, it has some very beautiful places, mostly around the western edge. Most of the state is flat and miles of corn, wheat, soybeans, or prairie. Like much of Nebraska. I find that beautiful, but lots of people find it boring. As for American Indians, unless you go to a reservation, chances are that metal one at a rest stop in your link is the only one you’ll see. Instead, go there to see real Dakota farm families in real pickup trucks who live on real farms and shop in real American towns and WalMarts. Enjoy their exotic Scandinavian, German, Ukrainian, and Russian faces and traditions and accents. This is an amazing country, but so much of it doesn’t reveal itself if you stick to the freeways. A lot of it is more “a good place to be” than “a good place to visit.” Some is more “a good place to have left.”