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How did we survive ? - Dirt Roads

s.guns.gun Member Posts: 3,245
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
Check this out.


http://web3.foxinternet.net/safe/dirtroads/dirt_roads.htm


I am confused at times.We park on driveways anddrive on parkways.

Edited by - s.gun on 09/28/2002 09:23:41
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ain't it the truth! That was cool.....thanks.

    muley

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very appropriate, I live two and a half miles off the highway on a dirt road. Most of that is still true.

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    Edited by - wundudnee on 09/28/2002 10:28:35

    Edited by - wundudnee on 09/28/2002 10:32:00

    Edited by - wundudnee on 09/28/2002 10:34:33
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    I like that - Our rd is slated to be paved in the next year - they have already paved up to about 300yrds away (314yrds on my range finder) I hope my 12yr old does not forget being raised on one....

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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I moved from the freeways of Los Angeles to north Idaho three years ago. I live off a county dirt road, up a steep, windy private dirt road to a dirt driveway that is still a 1/2 mile away from my cabin. In summer the roads are either dust bowls or rutted rivers of mud; in winter they are sheets of ice demanding not only 4WD but siped and studded snow tires. I have never been happier in my life.

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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is all so true. Twenty five years ago I bought a small place in Southern Utah so that I'd be able to escape from the madness here in California. I was a good four miles off the nearest paved road. A few years ago a new sub division began construction near my hide-away. Parks, schools, shopping centers, you name it, its being built. Although my property has jumped in value (and so did the taxes) it is not the place it once was. I'm willing to bet that large numbers of American families still live on dirt roads, or at least a ways away from the paved ones. How much longer this life style can exist remains to be seen. Our DC politicos already refer to these areas as "fly over country". The day we lose the last dirt road is the day that the true America dies.

    Mark T. Christian
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  • fawn_boxerfawn_boxer Member Posts: 46 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    THUMBS UP TO THAT ONE!
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  • s.guns.gun Member Posts: 3,245
    edited November -1
    B.T.T.

    I am confused at times.We park on driveways anddrive on parkways.
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  • mkirklandmkirkland Member Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That was a good read. I totally agree and when I can afford it I will be at the end of a dirt road. Probably alone because it sure is hard to find a women who wants to live in a remote place, oh did I mention that I don't want kids? That gives me a frown and a shake of the head every time I guess I will just have to get a dog and sleep with my guns
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Man I don't like children either! They smell real funny and you can't trust them to not drink bleach.

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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I honestly think that folks that learned to drive on dirt roads are better drivers than them there life time city folk.

    mkirkland and will270win: Just think where you would be if your parents had felt the same way.

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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Bring on the dirt,lets plow all pavement up,would slow our pace back down where it needs to be.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • maggiethecatmaggiethecat Member Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    just had to chime in here. i'm only 27, but i could not agree more.i am currently looking for a place to move to. but somewhere that isnt in the middle of nowhere, i want to be on the other side of nowhere! i truly miss going to my great grand mothers house outside of Jones, OK. by the time you got to her house, you couldn't even remember the last paved road. best times of my life.

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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i grew up on a farm off an old rutted dirt road, but the farm's been sold and roads paved....lost forever
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