Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are the interesting parts of the Midwest (and Minnesota and Wisconsin). Once you leave the Great Lakes Midwest for the Great Plains Midwest you’re gonna be bored out of yout mind until you hit the Rockies. Iowa is so boring its tourist traps are trucker themed.
I did the drive from Ohio to the PNW a year ago and yeah, it’s bad when you’re missing Ohio and can’t wait for Wyoming… Minnesota rocked though, absolutely awesome rest stops, we were glad to take a detour there to shave some time off South Dakota.
Yeah it was beautiful at the end, but it was a lot of boring to get there. And tbh it was easy to forget how beautiful it was because it was dwarfed by the beauty of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the Cascades. I’m biased, I think there’s little on Gaia’s great green ass more beautiful than mountains, and forests and valleys, as well as lakes and oceans are among the few things that compete.
I’ll also say Peoria surprised me as a hub of urban beauty. But I’m generally an Illinois lover, something about that state is beautiful and smells weirdly comfortable.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Indiana and Illinois look the same as this as you continue west of Ohio
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are the interesting parts of the Midwest (and Minnesota and Wisconsin). Once you leave the Great Lakes Midwest for the Great Plains Midwest you’re gonna be bored out of yout mind until you hit the Rockies. Iowa is so boring its tourist traps are trucker themed.
I did the drive from Ohio to the PNW a year ago and yeah, it’s bad when you’re missing Ohio and can’t wait for Wyoming… Minnesota rocked though, absolutely awesome rest stops, we were glad to take a detour there to shave some time off South Dakota.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The western part of South Dakota is rather beautiful country, but basically anything east from the Badlands national park is rubbish.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah it was beautiful at the end, but it was a lot of boring to get there. And tbh it was easy to forget how beautiful it was because it was dwarfed by the beauty of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the Cascades. I’m biased, I think there’s little on Gaia’s great green ass more beautiful than mountains, and forests and valleys, as well as lakes and oceans are among the few things that compete.
I’ll also say Peoria surprised me as a hub of urban beauty. But I’m generally an Illinois lover, something about that state is beautiful and smells weirdly comfortable.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Indiana? They named a state after the Dog?!