quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 02, 2020 12:16PM

I spent some time (too much time) watching a couple of Youtube channels run by guys who make overland trips in Oz. Lots of room to get away from it all in a proper 4x4. Makes me wish we had Toyota 70 series over here, they're what a truck should be, simple, tough, reliable, not these tarted up things we have.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 02:56AM

That's right q-man, it's just one big desert surrounded by coastal settlements.
Just happens to be the best coastline in the world.
All 25,760Km of it (16,000 miles).

USA 19,924Km is (12,380 miles).

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 06:25AM

'berto - Aus does have some amazing coastline, but bang for buck I propose that NZ is better.

And Canada has 243,042km (151,019 miles) of coastline.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 07:28AM

Yours is all the same GAK.
Ours is 4000km apart in all directions so we have everything except ice.
Who wants ice at the beach?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 12:31PM

I have the good/bad fortune of living in the state with the most coastline in the contiguous United States at 2170 kilometers (1350 miles). Only gigantic Alaska way up there by itself on the other side of Canada (the world?) has more. It's great for those who love the beach (I don't unless it's for launching/landing my kayak), fishing (I can take it or leave it), or just being on the water (big yes) but sucks big time if if you can't handle heat and humidity for half the year and can be a literal disaster from tropical storms for those same hot and humid months. I think the climate where I live is akin to Brisbane; we're on almost exact opposite sides of the equator. Once you get away from the coasts, except for the area around Mouseville (Orlando), it's not very densely populated in the southern half of the state but it is mostly private property taken up by cattle ranches, citrus groves, and sugar cane fields with the Everglades taking up a huge portion of the southernmost bit of the mainland portion of the state.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 04:19PM

quasi, I've been to Florida several times and have family that live around 'mouseville' ..I think it may be nice living there in the winters but with that heat, humidity, and storms in the summer? No thanks..
I've trucked through 47 of the contiguous 48 and the Pacific Northwest has the best climate and scenery IMHO..although I am really fucking tired of all the rain we get in the winter...

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 07:05PM

pro, the summers are brutal here for sure. My youngest son, born and raised here, was stationed in Tacoma when he was in the Air Force and loved it except for all the rain. My middle son lives in upstate South Carolina where it, North Carolina, and Georgia converge and the brutal part of the summer is only half as long as Florida's and the winters are pretty mild plus the Blue Ridge Mountains are nearby. I was there in SC from Oct. 2018 through March 2019 helping him with some stuff and made a few trips to the mountains which was a treat for this flatlander.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2020 09:28PM

If trucking through 47 states is true then I'd say you are pretty lucky Pro.
The USA is some pretty amazing terrain. And there's heaps of it. Almost all of it is useful.
Unlike South America's jungles and North America's snow and Australia's deserts.
I know you weren't on holiday to 47 states, you were working but it's still good bragging rights.