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Since we've covered the existential dread of the midwest and the sheer horror of The Deep South, it's time to look at the best region in the United States that is not the West Coast, the Southwest. Which does not include Oklahoma and Texas and I will fight anyone who says it does. The view from the top of El Morro in New Mexico.  An ivy covered doorway in the Mayhew Lodge ruins in Oak Creek Canyon outside Sedona. Walt Disney stayed here once.  The Mogollon Rim by Wagner Hill in Arizona, if you like big, steep cliffs.  The Tucson Mountains in Saguaro National Park.  The Salt River just above Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. This is where Phoenix gets it's water.  The Aldo Leopold Wilderness just outside Silver City, New Mexico.  A pretty grasshopper hanging out near Fort Apache.  The headwaters of the Gila River in New Mexico. Geronimo was born somewhere around here.  Central Phoenix at night as viewed from South Mountain.  The Dolores River in Colorado.  A little canal outside Montezuma's Well in Arizona.  Aaloosaktukwi outside Flagstaff in July. There's always permafrost on the peak.  The Floyd Volcano field viewed from the hilltop ruins of Walavudu in Arizona.  The ruins of Casa Grande Compound A in Coolidge, Arizona. The only reason to ever go to Coolidge.  Kinishba on the White Mountain Apache Reservation during a summer rainstorm.  The pool at El Morro, New Mexico during a winter snow fall. The Spanish learned about this place from the Zuni and stopped here when going between old Mexico and Santa Fe, it's covered in Spanish, native and American carvings.  The Sierra Ancha Mountains and Schoolhouse Point platform mound ruins at sunset in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. So we've got a bit of everything not-coastal. We've got snow, mountains, forests, rivers, deserts and hiking. And loads of old, old history. But we also have something even better.  The skeleton of the dinosaur that killed Dennis Nedry. So post your pictures of the American Southwest ITT, post your stories and please don't judge us by Phoenix, those guys are idiots.
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The Southwest is super cool. We just need to figure out a way to kill every person who lives there and it'll be perfect.
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Mar 24, 2016 08:36
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Bip Roberts posted:The Southwest is super cool. We just need to figure out a way to kill every person who lives there and it'll be perfect. Hey, there might be some mexican immigrants who haven't been there long enough to become permanently terrible.
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Mar 24, 2016 09:53
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Mar 24, 2016 09:56
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This is what them Southwest actually looks like.
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Mar 24, 2016 10:02
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du -hast posted:This is what them Southwest actually looks like. Rural blight is not unique to us, but yeah, the plateau has been p. much abandoned. Doesn't help most of it is reservation. Also, east New Mexico barely counts, that poo poo is on the plains. Texas and Oklahoma can go gently caress themselves.
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Mar 24, 2016 11:24
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seems to me you are saying just posts pictures of mesas
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Mar 24, 2016 11:25
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Shaquin posted:seems to me you are saying just posts pictures of mesas A vast empty wilderness with Phoenix, Tucson and Albuquerque thrown in there. That's pretty much it.  Though  there  used  to  be  more  people. 500 years of disease and forced relocation tend drive the numbers down a bit.
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Mar 24, 2016 11:30
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Cliff Palace is rad as hell
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Mar 24, 2016 11:42
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Shaquin posted:Cliff Palace is rad as hell   Spruce Tree House and Long House are also pretty sweet.  Cliff Palace has this sweet mural though.
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Mar 24, 2016 11:49
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the united states are undoubtedly under a native american curse
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Mar 24, 2016 11:51
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Shaquin posted:the united states are undoubtedly under a native american curse I studied archaeology with an emphasis in Hohokam, which is Maricopa County. The entire county, especially Phoenix, is built over towns and graveyards. I assume that is why we are cursed with Joe.   Pueblo Grande platform mound and the head gates of Canal System 2, the biggest canal system north of Peru prior to the Spanish. Both are right next to Sky Harbor.   Mesa Grande platform mound and the Lehi canals in the middle of Mesa.   Some petroglyphs and some red-on-buff ceramics I found on Hayden Butte, right next to ASU. Fun fact: ASU is built entirely over a village called Plaza Tempe and the stadium is over a good chunk of the graveyard. KiteAuraan fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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Mar 24, 2016 11:53
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I know the plague thing doing a number towards the southern US just before whitey showed up is common knowledge now but someone explained to me how the tribes up here in New England had trading networks and stuff a while back and were fairly well developed and a few details that made me legitimate white guilty for a couple days
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Mar 24, 2016 11:55
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I drove through New Mexico on the I-40 last year. It looked like poo poo the entire way through. Arizona looked nice though, once I got into the rocky/forest area
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Mar 24, 2016 12:25
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He got the high sign so he jumped a bus And along the roads that wind on through The hot Mojave and the Jericho He'd start his whole life anew And what he'd left behind he hadn't valued Half as much as some things He never knew He got dropped off on a street in town Where a grey old man looked him up and down and said "Son this ain't no western movie matinee And you're a long way off from yippee yi yay Cause I can tell at a glance You're not from 'round these parts Got a green look about ya And that's a gringo for starts Sometimes the only thing a western savage understands Are whiskey and rifles and an unarmed man like you." "So you gotta keep on the move And don't let that fancy paint fool you." And then the old-timer pulled him close and said, "You've come a long way, I know You got a longer drive ahead Through the bones of a buffalo Through the claims of the western dead And just like the spokes of a wheel You'll spin 'round with the rest, You'll hear the drums and the brush of steel, You'll hear the call of the west." Harshly awakened by the sound of six rounds Of light caliber rifle fire followed minutes Later by the booming of nine rounds from a Heavier rifle But you can't close off the wilderness He heard the snick of a rifle bolt and found Himself peering down the muzzle of a weapon Held by a drunken liquor store owner "There's a conflict," he said. "There's a conflict between land and people The people have to go. They've come all the way out here to make mining Claims, to do automobile body work, to gamble. To take pictures, to not have to do laundry, to Own a mini-bike, to have their own cb radios and Air conditioning, good plumbing for sure, and to Sell time life books and to work in a deli, to Have some chili every morning and maybe, maybe To own their own gas stations again and to take Drugs and have some crazy sex, but above all, Above all to have a fair shake, to get a piece of the Rock and a slice of the pie and to spit out The window of your car and not have the wind blow It back in your face." Now from the high timber line to the deserts dry Who'll risk dangling on some hangman's tree To stake their claims on these prairie plains While they say this lunch is not had for free? Just like the spokes of a wheel Who'll spin 'round with the rest? They'll hear the drums and the brush of steel And I'll hear the call of the west Call of the west
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Mar 24, 2016 13:41
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Yea
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Mar 24, 2016 13:43
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ethanol posted:Yea Welcome to my life\world the years 1983 - 1998, 2002 - 2006, 2010 - 2013
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Mar 24, 2016 13:52
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Shaquin posted:Cliff Palace is rad as hell my favourite super mario world level
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a starwar betamax posted:Welcome to my life\world the years 1983 - 1998, 2002 - 2006, 2010 - 2013 You're the same age as my sister you can have relations with her if you want
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Mar 24, 2016 14:32
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SAND STORM!!!!
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Mar 24, 2016 14:39
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ethanol posted:You're the same age as my sister you can have relations with her if you want She can hit me up on AIM: HoleRaper83
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Mar 24, 2016 14:50
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My family has property a few miles east of Stoner (uhuhuhuh.........he said Stoner) on the Dolores River. Great trout fishing! It's a lot farther down river from the picture of McPhee reservoir in the OP.
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Mar 24, 2016 16:42
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Vaalrn posted:I drove through New Mexico on the I-40 last year. It looked like poo poo the entire way through. Arizona looked nice though, once I got into the rocky/forest area Flagstaff is pretty cool. I wanted to go to college at NAU because it's located there. I didn't go to college.
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Vaalrn posted:I drove through New Mexico on the I-40 last year. It looked like poo poo the entire way through. Arizona looked nice though, once I got into the rocky/forest area I-40 takes you through Amarillo. It's the worst highway. The only part of it that's good before Flagstaff is Tijeras Canyon. Flagstaff to LA is pretty though.
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I've heard doing the salt river tube ride and then getting a dui on the way home is considered cool and a rite of passage for Phoenicians can anybody confirm
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Mar 24, 2016 17:10
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Kiva's are pretty cool. Chill place to smoke out and no girls allowed. Great place to avoid female statements like "gather me a bundle of sticks" and "when was the last time you put venison on the table".
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Navin Johnson posted:Kiva's are pretty cool. Chill place to smoke out and no girls allowed. Great place to avoid female statements like "gather me a bundle of sticks" and "when was the last time you put venison on the table". You want kivas eh? I've got kivas.  Plaza kiva at Kinishba, AD 1250-1400. Western Pueblo/Mogollon.  Kiva at Badger House on Wetherill Mesa with a secret tunnel passage to a tower so you don't get trapped by attackers, AD 1258-1300. Mesa Verde Branch Ancestral Pueblo.  The Great Kiva at Lowry Pueblo, a Chacoan site from the McElmo Phase, AD 1085-1170. Chaco Branch Ancestral Pueblo.  The open-air kiva at Wupatki, this one is a bit different, women can still bug you here, AD 1131-1300. Northern Sinagua.  A little kiva in Balcony House. During the time of the cliff dwellings Great Kivas and other integrative Chaco stuff went away and you got lots of smaller clan kivas, AD 1250-1300. Mesa Verde Branch Ancestral Pueblo.  A clan kiva at Elden Pueblo. AD 1070-1275. Northern Sinagua.  A big rectangular Hopi-style kiva at Homolovi II. AD 1325-1390. Ancestral Hopi.  A circular kiva in the plaza at Atsinna on the top of El Morro rock. AD 1275-1350. Ancestral Zuni.  A square kiva built into the Atsinna roomblock. AD 1275-1350. Ancestral Zuni again.  A Basketmaker III pithouse. Not really a kiva, but ancestral to them. AD 650-700. Durango Basketmakers. Also, kivas can have some sweet murals.  This one came from the Knobby Knee site near Dolores. It's from AD 1193-1213 and is Northern San Juan Branch Ancestral Pueblo.  This came from a kiva in Lowry Pueblo. A bit older at AD 1060-1170, it's McElmo Phase Chaco Branch Ancestral Pueblo. Last there is a really nice one.  This  mural came from a kiva at Hopi village of Awatovi. It's from AD 1300-1500, so it predates the Spanish presence at the village and the destruction of it in a war between Traditional Hopi and Spanish suck-ups. It's on display at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.
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Mar 25, 2016 00:46
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Gotta say OP, Southwest looks pretty lovely.
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Blacktoll posted:Gotta say OP, Southwest looks pretty lovely.    Nah, we good.
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FartingBedpost posted:I-40 takes you through Amarillo. It's the worst highway. The only part of it that's good before Flagstaff is Tijeras Canyon. I like the stretch of the 40 from the AZ/NM border to Gallup. The rock formations there are pretty. The entire Leupp to that point stretch can eat poo poo.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:26
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Looks like a horrid place. Why would anyone even live there?
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Mar 25, 2016 03:48
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lotta good memories of gettin' my hog swallowed here
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Mar 25, 2016 03:54
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I've only been been to the southwest once as a kid but for some reason I really like the landscape Southwest is ok by me.
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Mar 25, 2016 04:08
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They're a good budget airline
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i read a book in college about that spanish(?) explorer who got lost in the southwest for like 20 years and it blew my mind
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