Are all you East Coasters this strange?

[DrMoab]

So I am driving through Wyoming the other day and see a mini van Heading east on I-80 with Massachusetts plates on it CHUCK FULL of tumble weeds.

Do you guys not have tumble weeds in Mass? Only thing I could think of is that they were taking them back to show their family.

[nhrocker]

I don't think I've ever seen tumbleweeds anywhere in New England, but are you sure they didn't just have really bad hair? :shiver:

Really though, when I was younger I got to go to Arizona for a week and do the whole tourist thing. I think that trip was the only time I've ever seen tumbleweeds in person... It also ended up being my first time offroading. Took one of those Jeep tours in a stretched CJ. Seeing the tumbleweeds was cool and all, but I don't think I'd ever bother to bring them home...isn't that what cameras are for?

[RCman]

Nope, no tumbleweeds in MA.
However I guess it's sorta like a freind of mine who went to vist some freinds in Florida and took some snow in a cooler so that they could see it...

I on the other hand try not to be that strange...

[DDCxj]

What's a tumbleweed?

[whatevah]

hehe strange people... I didn't even stop to take a picture of a tumbleweed when I was out west last... of course, I did pull off the road in Alabama to take a picture of a cotton field last fall. :-D

[lobsterdmb]

Are all you East Coasters this strange?

Yes!

[mdl]

Git out ryan... This ain't you're forum... :D

[XJGrl]

Haha -- I tried to take one home with me when I was out west -- but I was promtly told that they are usually full of bugs and nasties -- so I put it back on the side of the road where it belongs :dunno: I still wish I had one -- would look cool inside of a glass-base coffee table or something.

Ha -- anyways -- yeah, I think there are some weirdos like that on the right coast.

M

[DrMoab]

A funny story (to me anyways).

My Father in Law is from Attleburro Ma. His brother came out here for the first time a couple of years ago and we decided to take him up in the mountains. We were cruising down this dirt road and all of a sudden he is screaming at me to STOP! He jumps out of the jeep and starts snaping pictures. At first I can't even figure out what he is taking pics of then he says that it was the sheep...he had never seen a sheep in the wild before. I about fell out of my jeep laughing. Are there really no sheep back there either?

[creeperjeep]

theres wild sheep in Utah?
just herded sheep at home

[DrMoab]

theres wild sheep in Utah?
just herded sheep at home
They aren't wild but they free range heard them. No fences...Think Broke Back Mountain without the gay dudes.

[Wayne Sihler]

Well most of the sheep (I live close to WEST Va) have their heads stuck in the fence.
Wayne

[gearwhine]

I have never seen a tumbleweed, and I have never seen a free range sheep. I think I'm missing out on life.

[AJPulley]

I live here, but I'm from northern Cal. One day, back when I was dating my daughter's mom, I took her downtown (Sacramento) to see the capital. As we sat on a bench in front of the State House, she made a comment about people throwing their lunch on the ground. There were a few spoiled oranges on the ground next to the tree near the bench. I told her to look up- it was an orange tree. She started balling laughing; she had never seen an orange tree before.

Just goes to show you thiers a whole world out there beyond the great wall of New England!

[Menzenski]

Three years ago, I was hiking in New Mexico and stumbled across a herd of (apparently) free-range cattle. That was a shock at the time.

[Rev Den]

You can smoke them and they make you a little...shall we say..."relaxed"

Rev


So I have heard

[xjgrn]

Lucky for you there was just one from Mass! I drive for a living, and Ma. has to be one of the worst places as far as driver friendly in the north east. They probably thought it was piote!

[sidriptide]

wel i've made the trip west to Utah twice now from MA and i saw alot of stuff for the first time.. thats the beauty of making a road trip like that.
Big Horn Sheep and Tumbleweeds arent anything you'll see east of Denver. free-range livestock though? same animals.. just a different approach to ranching, or farming as it's called out here. and i did actually think about grabbibng a small tumbleweed to bring back home last time but i didnt.

[91G-Dub]

No we don't have tumbleweeds or free ranging sheep. But we do have cheesesteaks and hoagies here in South Jersey.

[jeepinandy]

They aren't wild but they free range heard them. No fences...Think Broke Back Mountain without the gay dudes.


Nice cover there Doc.... LOL

[DrMoab]

Since I was going to the same area I saw the tumbleweed van I thought I would take my camera today. I first stoped by the Orion wind generating plant just outside of Evanston Wy,

Damn these things are huge. the Rotor diameter is 80 meters.
http://images1.snapfish.com/346%3C77767%7Ffp344%3Enu%3D3243%3E%3B99%3E233%3EWS NRCG%3D32337%3B32%3B7%3B6%3Cnu0mrj

It is almost impossible to get the whole things in a frame.
http://images1.snapfish.com/346%3C77767%7Ffp342%3Enu%3D3243%3E%3B99%3E233%3EWS NRCG%3D32337%3B32%3B4477nu0mrj

For prospective. Thats my one ton Dodge in the bottom of the pic.
http://images1.snapfish.com/346%3C77767%7Ffp346%3Enu%3D3243%3E%3B99%3E233%3EWS NRCG%3D32337%3B32%3B447%3Bnu0mrj

But what I really wanted to talk about was sheep.

Free range sheep to be exact.
http://images1.snapfish.com/346%3C77767%7Ffp344%3Enu%3D3243%3E%3B99%3E233%3EWS NRCG%3D32337%3B32%3B4485nu0mrj

Notice....no butt boys in sight.
http://images1.snapfish.com/346%3C77767%7Ffp344%3Enu%3D3243%3E%3B99%3E233%3EWS NRCG%3D32337%3B32%3B4488nu0mrj

Here is where the hearders live. No joke!
http://images1.snapfish.com/346%3C77767%7Ffp33%3A%3Enu%3D3243%3E%3B99%3E233%3E WSNRCG%3D32337%3B32%3B7%3B88nu0mrj

Enjoy. :D

[whatevah]

Yellow AND Dodge! nice :-D

There is a wind farm somewhere in PA, I forget where... saw it when I drove to Illinois and back. those things are gigantic!

[gearwhine]

Yellow AND Dodge! nice :-D

There is a wind farm somewhere in PA, I forget where... saw it when I drove to Illinois and back. those things are gigantic!


There is a small windfarm one block away from Paragon. The first time I went there I made a wrong turn, ended up under one of them and I was almost scared for my life. They are definitely not as big as the one shown though, but still pretty damn big.

[sidriptide]

whats funny about those wind-farms out here is that just like everything thats not made of dirt or grows naturally. there is a "greenie" group opposed to it. the opposition's biggest complaint about them is that they are a hazard to birds, and bats especially. but it has been proven that the bats actually PLAY in the vanes as they swing around.. natures daredevils??

[lunchbox643]

Those are some HUGE windmils!

and as far as i know, yep we are all that crazy.

[RichP]

Had a company of infantry from the 42nd out of manhattan one summer at Ft Drum that I was training in forward observer calls for fire. We were sitting on the tailgates of our tracks propped up on 4.2 wooden ammo cases on the op when a half dozen rabbits came out of the brush. Next thing I know half the squad is up off the ground on the tail gate wanting to know WTF are those things, I said 'rabbits', next question was 'do they bite' , said no, but you gotta watch out for the ones with horns [jackalope], they like to run up and poke you in the a$$...
However that nite we did have a blackbear pull one private out of his sleeping bag and rough him up pretty well, nobody else slept with munchies in their fart sacks after that..

[01XJLIMITED]

A minivan full of tumbleweeds? No problem. A minivan full of free-ranging sheep? Probably headed for Rhode Island.

[ladywolf]

they're puttin in a huge wind farm in where i'm from in WA...sposed to be one of the biggest ones in the NW.

those things are freakin HUGE. i walked across the blades that were sitting on the ground, its amazing

[Lawn Cher']

No we don't have tumbleweeds or free ranging sheep. But we do have cheesesteaks and hoagies here in South Jersey.

That's what I miss most about Jersey.

This is a Jersey tumbleweed:

http://liberalserving.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/plastic_bag.jpg

A plastic bag blowing in the wind.

[whatevah]

I live a shopping center where, thanks to the center layout, one corner entrance has any wind forced into a spiral, kinda like a big dust devil. and of course, that's where the random bags and sale papers end up getting blown to. :) I should get a shot of that sometime... hehe

[DrMoab]

I live a shopping center where, thanks to the center layout, one corner entrance has any wind forced into a spiral, kinda like a big dust devil. and of course, that's where the random bags and sale papers end up getting blown to. :) I should get a shot of that sometime... hehe
You have spent too much time watching the movie American Beauty

[whatevah]

never seen it... I'd just get a shot for an example of poor design of the shopping center.

[Lawn Cher']

I like that movie...

"I will not be treated as if I do not exist."