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ceemes wrote:

totalmotorcycle wrote:


Mike

Did they move Cowtown to Vancouver Island? Last time I was there, the mountains were to the west and the prairies were to the east.

He must have been looking toward the 49th.

Simple. The roads. To the west there's Florida mountain and Petersburg Pass. Which are part of a route known to some around here as the "Numassmont" ring, after the Nurburgring due to the European feel a lot of the roads have. It's even near the town of Berlin . To the north there's VT. It's got a ton of back roads, dirt and paved, to explore. Under two hours east there's Boston if you want something new. There's three ways to get there, too. The short way, the fast way, and the long/fun way. The entire western edge of the state, Berkshire county, has so many nice roads, I need to pinch myself.

Good thing there is the Atlantic Ocean between us right now Mike, because I would love to get me a stool and climb up to kick you're azz.

You are just way too upbeat and nice to be a real person. If I hadn't been to your house and ate all your food, I would seriously doubt you even existed.

"Oooh, I just love riding the baldass prairie...."
....really Dude, you can get the same experience sitting on your bike in the garage watching a big screen TV.... showing a still picture of anything east of Cowtown.

Now the mountains, I can't argue that point with you. Too bad it's 5 hours to get to them from here, but you had it good.. before you jumped ship and hit the Motherland for a year. At least they got roads that curve there, eh?

What do I love about the place I live.......... uuuuhh.... all my dodo is here...
the minus 25* weather.... nope.
my gonads dragging in the snow every day this winter..... nope
the great _______ ......
I like all the _______ .....
fantastic ________......
uummmm......

All my stuff is here.

What's not to like?

Hitchin is an old market town, as attractive as they come - it's small enough to get to know people in, and big enough to have a lively restaurant and pub scene in the evenings - great restaurants; great pubs.

If I need to get out of town, I'm just ten minutes walk from a wide-open landscape of rolling commons, criss-crossed by ancient green lanes and footpaths. It's as beautiful as anywhere in the South-East of England - which is saying a lot.

If I get tired of Hitchin, I live three minutes from a rail station and thirty minutes from Central London by train. If you want food, theatre, comedy, concerts, entertainment of any kind... it's all here.

With some warm gear, the climate is mild enough for riding almost all year round. I live in the middle of a huge network of twisty back roads. I'm a couple of hours from the coast, or an easy day's ride from the Lake District, the Dales, the North York Moors, Dartmoor, the West Country, the Norfolk Broads, the Cotswolds or the Welsh valleys.

If the English countyside fails to do it for me, I'm a half day's ride from Amsterdam or Northern France, a day's ride from the Rhine Valley, two days from the Scottish Highlands and three days from the Mediterranean, the Alps or the Pyrenees (on some of the best roads on the planet).


But you didn't ask about the downside: too many cars

I have a love-hate relationship with where I live. I hate the congestion, how expensive it is, how insane the drivers are, and the general northeast "attitude" that a lot of folks wear on their sleeve. And getting snowed on all the time blows.

That said...I love fall here. It's beautiful. Once you get outside of the messy 95 belt, everything gets calmer and the roads are generally entertaining and fun. We have a huge number of great universities to, which fosters a great intellectual atmosphere - and with MIT nearby we're always learning about all kinds of great new cutting-0edge technology. I get great jobs here.

It's typically less than a 2 hour drive in any direction except east to hit a new state. Boston itself has great diversity which I love - I get to meet all kinds of new people, try new foods, etc, which I love. Boston is also generally liberal which works out well for me in the current atmosphere of the US-of-Christian-ideaology-only-A that most of the other states are currently taking.

365 riding days a year. Living just north of Tucson Az allows this. Lots of State highways (backroads) with little to no traffic. Although summers can whoop ya pretty good during the day.

I like the easy access to the mountains for riding and skiing. I like the fact that if you work hard here you can make it, but if you don't you will get run over like you've been hit by an oncoming train. I love how the pissy, lazy, jealous types hate Calgary for this very reason.
The weather is usually tolerable compared to an hour or two up the road where I grew up, except for this year which pretty much sucked. The economic boom which drove the price of everything to a stupid place had stayed a little longer than it's welcome so the negative parts of that are coming a little more in to line. I find the praries beautiful if you look in the right places, but unlike Mike, I think that riding through them pretty much sucks!

I like that you can go out east and be in the plains on long flat highways, you can go west and be in the twisties within minutes, the summers are beautiful and not too hot (lucky to break 100), the winters aren't too bad (lucky to get below -10/20), you have summer sports, winter sports, extreme sports, professional sports, every which way you can think of it.

Its Home.

Gummiente wrote:I have lived in and ridden across all of Canada and even though I now live in Ontario, my heart will always be in the prairies. Two of my most favourite spots are the Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan and Kananaskis Country in Alberta.

Where I live now is nice, though, only 40 minutes away from the eastern shores of Lake Huron and the same distance south from Georgian Bay. The scenery here is amazing, the roads are plentiful and there are a lot of bikes in the summer. Within a 2 hour radius are a couple of good microbreweries, a cheese factory, some incredible restaurants, a few great bike shops, seven scenic waterfalls, some of the best ATV/snowmobile trails in the country, a local butcher that cuts bigass steaks MY way from local free range cattle, lots of historic sites, neat antique shops and much more.

I have to agree with you on the Qu'Appelle Valley, my father is from Grenfell just east of there. Beautiful in its simplicity.