02-18-2025, 02:22 AM
Open space, not very peoply, the few people there are polite, and warm in winter! Yeah, it would be nice to live someplace like that! Go for it... Tex!
Plus, dinosaur tracks! And space!
Drumheller is kind of like that -- if you insist on not becoming a state (yet). It's not as warm, but there are more dinosaurs than people, or so it seemed when I was there.
As for not fencing off every viewpoint, when I was a kid in Oregon you could get yourself killed having fun climbing on rocks and going close to edges. Then the state started becoming a "nanny state" and fencing things off. They even blew up, with dynamite, a large rock on the coast where people used to climb from one rock to the next to the one furthest out at sea and climb to the top.
I was able to escape and move to Hawaii, where again -- no fences! It was awesome! In Hawaii they figured, "if you dat dumb, brah." But then, after some stupid tourist got killed at the Halona Blowhole on Oahu, the state decided to start fencing off freakin' every'ting! First the blowhole, then they put guards at the Haiku Stairs, they put lights inside the dark tunnels at Diamond head and added railings and started charging admission. They started fencing off beach access points, and then the state sold the state land at Velzyland Beach, one of the most famous surfing spots in the 1960s, to a developer to build a gated community. Oh, and there was the gate they built, at a cost of millions of dollars, trying to fence off the entire Ka'ena Point area -- to protect albatross chicks from feral dogs. Being by the ocean, the fancy multi-million dollar gate rusted out and was inoperable within two years, and the dogs just went around it. Nobody told the dogs they were supposed to use the gate.
Now I'm in Utah, where you can still get yourself killed by falling off a cliff pretty easily, but the fencing is ramping up. Horseshoe Bend was a free stop up until three or four years ago. Now there's a parking lot, it costs ten bucks to get in, and, yup, fences. The national parks have lots of fences because they have lots of visitors, and the more people the more stupid. State parks have fewer fences, although it depends on where they are. At the moment there's still public land where it's pretty easy to die if you're an idiot, but even then, there are tons of signs trying to warn idiots to not be idiots. But the same way dogs don't use gates, idiots don't read signs.
I'm glad you found a spot with few people and fewer gates and fences.
Plus, dinosaur tracks! And space!
Drumheller is kind of like that -- if you insist on not becoming a state (yet). It's not as warm, but there are more dinosaurs than people, or so it seemed when I was there.
As for not fencing off every viewpoint, when I was a kid in Oregon you could get yourself killed having fun climbing on rocks and going close to edges. Then the state started becoming a "nanny state" and fencing things off. They even blew up, with dynamite, a large rock on the coast where people used to climb from one rock to the next to the one furthest out at sea and climb to the top.
I was able to escape and move to Hawaii, where again -- no fences! It was awesome! In Hawaii they figured, "if you dat dumb, brah." But then, after some stupid tourist got killed at the Halona Blowhole on Oahu, the state decided to start fencing off freakin' every'ting! First the blowhole, then they put guards at the Haiku Stairs, they put lights inside the dark tunnels at Diamond head and added railings and started charging admission. They started fencing off beach access points, and then the state sold the state land at Velzyland Beach, one of the most famous surfing spots in the 1960s, to a developer to build a gated community. Oh, and there was the gate they built, at a cost of millions of dollars, trying to fence off the entire Ka'ena Point area -- to protect albatross chicks from feral dogs. Being by the ocean, the fancy multi-million dollar gate rusted out and was inoperable within two years, and the dogs just went around it. Nobody told the dogs they were supposed to use the gate.
Now I'm in Utah, where you can still get yourself killed by falling off a cliff pretty easily, but the fencing is ramping up. Horseshoe Bend was a free stop up until three or four years ago. Now there's a parking lot, it costs ten bucks to get in, and, yup, fences. The national parks have lots of fences because they have lots of visitors, and the more people the more stupid. State parks have fewer fences, although it depends on where they are. At the moment there's still public land where it's pretty easy to die if you're an idiot, but even then, there are tons of signs trying to warn idiots to not be idiots. But the same way dogs don't use gates, idiots don't read signs.
I'm glad you found a spot with few people and fewer gates and fences.
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