I'd say that Texas is probably the most sh*t-kicking state in America! WAY different than "kick ass". And I have a reliable source on this one as my brother lives in Texas. And my EX husband grew up in Texas.
Texas does take a lot of pride in itself! Texans also threaten to secede from the United States fairly regularly. Overall Texas is a very politically conservative state with the city of Austin being the somewhat lone liberal area. Nope, shit kicking isn't quite "being able to get things done". Here are a few uses of the term from Wiktionary.
Took off tank, airbox and top yoke to get at the ignition - it had cut out when I was at the shops the other day and then died again when I got home. I looked and saw a broken wire at the cable tie attached to the ignition and another at the headstock. When I took it off I found only 2 out of the 7 wires may be intact!!! Glad it was just the clutch cable that broke on the way back from Silverstone (to N.I.)
Self serve salad bar, so mainly onions and tomatoes in vinegar and some beetroot on a single lettuce leaf. Man can get hungry riding 3 hours through hills and twisties.
Well worth the effort to strip it out @Tim L. Good peace of mind after the repair and new clutch cable. Let us know how she goes.
Why Wyoming? Good question. Well, it's big - not as big as Texas, but big. I mean REALLY big. It's sparsely populated - so is Texas, but Wyoming is even more so. It's got cowboys - REAL cowboys. Texas has cowboys, too, but I'd wager that the majority of them are the urban cowboy. It's got mountains - I mean REAL mountains. Big mountains. Texas has mountains, but they're nowhere near as big .... and they're not big, sticky-up, proper pointy mountains like in Wyoming. It's green - like the Hill Country, but greener ... and more of it. Cos it's big. It's got Yellowstone Park.... well, most of it, anyway. Yellowstone is big. It's bigger than England's largest county and yet it sits quietly in a small corner of the top left hand side of this big state. It's got a mountain range named 'THE BIG TITS' and any place that can name mountains after big tits has to be right. Right? Did I mention it's big? It is. Not the biggest, but big. And it is beautiful. Truly, deeply, stunningly, achingly BEAUTIFUL. Texas has its beauty but, well, it's not really in the same league. I like Texas - and its people. But, if I were forced to choose to live in either Texas or Wyoming it would be Wyoming for me - which is ironic because I much prefer a warm climate and I suspect the average temperatures in Wyoming are much lower than those in Texas. Why Wyoming? Why ever not?
Me and the missus spent four or five days travelling around Wyoming a few years ago after visiting Yellowstone. It was funny driving for fifty miles then coming to a "Town" sign saying "Town-name Population 3" Then one night I can remember watching a news report on TV. An elderly lady had been found dead at home, she had lain dead for six years ! Sparsely populated yes but stunning mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and views.
West of the Mississippi for the most part is sparsely populated, not much to choose from for lodging, restaurants, petrol stations, grocery or liquor stores once you get off the interstate highway system. These services may also close early. That's why i bought the big diesel motorcoach(camper) i can go for 1400 miles without refueling and carry enough water, food and beer for a week or more. West of the Mississippi is extremely big. Road trip to Alaska is on my bucket list.
Yep, west of the Mississippi is definitely big! When we travel through the West, especially on motorcycles, I'm always stunned by and grateful for the expansive beauty and sheer magnitude of wide open spaces. I always think to myself, "Overcrowding? What overcrowding?" But then I remember that part of the reason is water. As in lack of....
OK, Adie, you've sold me on Wyoming! Even though I live in the U.S. and in the West at that, I've not been any place in Wyoming other than the tiny little southeast corner that I passed through a month ago while riding to Sturgis. But now I'm quite sure that Wyoming--and a proper tour of it--needs to go on the motorcycle trip bucket list. But we'll definitely need to plan a trip in the summer because, as you rightly suspect, the average temperatures in Wyoming are definitely lower than those in Texas. And WAY the heck lower than those in my (now) home state of Arizona!
Hmmmm..... well, I honestly wasn't trying to 'SELL' the state, the idea or the reason for my personal preference. Honestly. My original remark was a kind of throwaway, though perhaps more sublime than subliminal, if you catch my drift! I love Arizona to bits. I stayed in Phoenix for a couple of months and got to do a fair bit of wandering around the state so have visited many of its nicer - and some of its not-so-nice - places and, as I mentioned, I like hotter than hell as far as weather is concerned - maybe I'm pre-acclimatising? But I would DEFINITELY recommend a motorcycle tour of Wyoming - heck, even the journey to and from would be on most people's bucket lists .... if you can omit as much as possible of the interstates.
