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[m1ltownjuggalo]

Yes colorado is very nice I've been wanting to move there for some time now but I am italian joker but born in the usa but iv always wanted to go to italy and learn how to speak italian that's one of my goals in life is to learn italian

[lady black]

Joker, you may be disappointed in the rest of the states (if you get a chance to travel much while working on a master's thesis) because you are indeed going to be in one of the most beautiful areas in all 50 states. I hope you are not too familiar with the Alps, though. The Rockies may not measure up to them. Each of our states has its own beauty, though, even Illinois. A friend from New Mexico could never get over the amount of green--trees, lawns, farms, parks. She was used to the high desert country in our southwest, with sparse vegetation, much of it cactus or sagebrush. One note of caution: be sure to check the miles to anywhere you are trying to go. Many Europeans do not fully realize the scale of our maps compared to theirs. And remember that 1 mile is 1.61 kilometers. I hope you are a skier--Colorado in February is prime ski time. They have already gotten snow out there.

[Antison]

Yes colorado is very nice I've been wanting to move there for some time now but I am italian joker but born in the usa but iv always wanted to go to italy and learn how to speak italian that's one of my goals in life is to learn italian

I am a 3rd generation Italian (great grandparents came over here in 1910), and my top dream is to travel to their home town.

[Joker]

Life is so funny: I've met american boys and girls who are dying to come and visit Europe while me and many friends of mine are dying to go and see America, expecially the USA
You all are getting me even more excited than before with your posts!!!
I surely understand what Lady Black said, either concerning the difference among different countries' landscapes or about the vastness of places and the mileage between them.

That's exactly what I want to see! In Italy you cannot find something even near to the Grand Canyon or to the Niagara Falls. I'm dreaming of driving along a road such as those of the movies I've always seen: straight and endless like a line on a plane and nothing but desert and rocks on its side for miles and miles ahead. I want to see forests and woods such as Yellowstone Park, large as Veneto region. I'm also interested to see your cities and towns but I think the first things i want to see are your natural wonders.

I really hope to have some spare time to visit some places (i.e: weekends, Easter holidays, 4th of July, etc) and I made a sort of a list of things I absolutely want to see before leaving: maybe you could help me not to miss something else!

1) Considering that my parents were professional skiers and they taught me to ski on the Alps when I was 3 years old, I absolutely need to go skiing in Aspen and nearby places. If, as I suppose, I will arrive at Boulder in february, will I be able to go skiing also in March and/or April? (In Italy I went to ski on a glacier even at the 1st of May!)

2) Yellowstone Park - It is about 600/700 miles from Boulder, I was planning to take 3-4 days off to rent a car and drive up there and find some hostel for a couple of nights.

3) Salt Lake City & Great Salt Lake - a weekend should be enough? (car+hostel)

4) Grand Canyon - this one is quite far and I didn't exactly get the precise idea of where all tourists usually go to visit the canyon (I mean: it is so vaste that it can be reached from different places I think, where all the tourists usually go? Where is the spot form which you can see it and appreciate it? Utah, Arizona? And how I get to it?) so I had the idea of taking a plane from Denver to Phoenix (or another city near Phoenix) and then rent a car from there and reach the canyon (will I make it in 3-4 days?)

5)New Mexico - Santa Fe + Albuquerque (I know I'll sound crazy but I've just finished watching AMC's Breaking Bad and I am curious to see a bit of new mexico will a couple of days be enough?)

That's it for now, can you suggest me any other places to see? What's to see in Nebraska and Kansas which border Colorado?

[lady black]

Joker,
I am not a skier myself, but I have a cousin who was, and his daughter and her husband now live in Boulder, so I called and asked about the ski season. I was told that you should be able to ski at least through the middle of April, and very probably until the end of April. I would not count on May, as we do not have a whole lot of glaciers around there.
The Grand Canyon has two main tourist areas, on the two rims, north and south. The north would be closer to you, and is my favorite, as it is in dense ponderosa pine forest. It is closed in the winter, however, as it is 1000 ft higher than the south rim and gets about 10ft of snow. It gets fewer visitors at any time of year than the south rim. Some people prefer the south rim, anyway, because rain, snow, etc. that falls on the north side drains into the canyon, causing more erosion on the northern side of the canyon than on the southern side, which is therefore the better place to view the northern side from. Rain that falls on the south rim drains away from the canyon, except what falls into the canyon itself. I believe that there is now a glass-floored lookout platform where you can look literally straight down past your feet pretty far down, somewhere on the south rim. That was built since I was there, so I don't know just where it is. To get to the south rim you have to go around the east end of the canyon, near Page, Arizona, and then back west quite a distance.
Kansas and Nebraska are not great tourist areas, although good places to find those endless roads, but with equally endless cornfields, soybean fields, wheat fields... There is the Devil's Tower somewhere in Nebraska, which I believe is the remnant of the core of an otherwise long-vanished volcano. Mount Rushmore is in one of Dakotas, South I think.

[nyktos]

i love how incredibly courteous the fellow board members are!

saint louis, Missouri has an amazing [art / music & food] scene...

much diversity... always a plus!

the only place in the mid-west worth visiting [j/k ]

[Hinata]

Hello everyone I am from St.Louis MO. I have been playing this game for about 3 months now and i love how it still keeps my attention. I find myself playing at work too! *^_^*. I really like where this game has gone so far and am looking forward to see where it is going!

[scotty 71]

Sheffield in a great little country called england
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[Pyrizzle]

Welcome to the Forums Scotty 71 and Hinata!

[openthegait]

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