Oddbean

Nevada is soooo dry. Unless it's Reno/ Tahoe area. In that case it's a very nice place. Utah is also horribly dry. The good thing about Texas is that it sets your expectations so low that when you travel anywhere else on vacation, you will think it's beautiful

yeah, i don't mind the dry, wet you have mosquitoes and fungus and shit, parasites everywhere and yeah i'm looking at utah also, that whole region is now on my radar... i think i need to get there, set up in a little town somewhere, fiat mine and stack sats and get my papers and a motorcycle or car or something and do a lot of driving around to see... there is green patches everywhere, around the edges of mountains, and the dry places are still good too, a bit easier, i really think it's something that has to be seen before you know where you are gonna plop yourself the more i think about it the more it seems obvious this is where i'm heading... madeira is nice but i would love to live in a country where english is the spoken language, and somewhere that i can easily get into guns is a huge plus, also, access to beef... that's another big one... the entire midwest is beef country, above all else

that whole region is great for road trips in the winter. i never liked road trips before driving in New Mexico, AZ, Colorado. and to lesser extent Nevada/Utah. the vistas are never ending. Colorado especially has a different biome/landscape every 1 hour that you drive. New Mexico has a special place in my heart although it's poor compared to the rest. I drove from Tahoe to Reno to Salt Lake City, Reno to Salt Lake was least favorite part of the region. It got really interesting again south of Salt Lake CIty in Bryce Canyon.

wellll... i want something that can do the highway fine but can also go offroad, it doesn't need to be powerful, so long as it can actually move at some velocity on a steep slope when it comes time for me to make a move, i'm sure that i could be assisted by you

My husband really likes the Kawasaki KLR650. It is good on-road and off-road and has a very large gas tank, which is handy when it is a long ways to the nearest gas station. The only pseudo-problem with it is that it is a little on the tall side. It is taller than I am comfortable with, so if you have short legs, you might prefer something else.

i'm not really in so much of a hurry to need 650, honestly, a 250 4 stroke is enough for me, i had problems with a kinda heavy 50cc and hills but i don't think a 250 is gonna totally choke on most of the hills i might encounter, and worst case, fuck it, turn around, maybe there's a more gentle slope to the same destination, or not i'm not young enough anymore to care, and wasn't that excited about going fast, every time i go fast i have flashbacks of every time i've slid on gravel and tarmac in my life and i am fine to go a bit slower... just as long as it stops fast and isn't too heavy i'll keep my eyes open

i recently had a tumble on some steep concrete "road" near me a few weeks back and i'm just glad i didn't break any bones but it took 6 weeks for everything to get back to normal, i just don't feel the need to push those kinds of boundaries at all, it was never in my temperament, and whenever i got possessed of such stupidity it tended to end up being regrettable