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Originally Posted by habernac
He wouldn't say that if he'd been to Yellowstone National Park. Or Devil's Tower, Wyoming. Moab, Utah. Jamestown, Virginia. Mesa Verde, Colorado....... We live on an awesome continent, so much to see.
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Seen Yellowstone, seen Devil's Tower (and watched Close Encounters projected onto the wall of a cabin right underneath it), seen the Black Hills, and the Black Rock Desert, and the Finger Lakes, and the Rockies, and the Appalachians, and the West Coast and the East Coast. Yes, the landscapes in North America are fantastic and absolutely worth visiting.
But the
people are all the same. And that's what makes travel for me: being exposed to different ways of thinking and different cultures, and that barely exists in North America. From Alaska to Florida to Quebec to BC, the overall culture is astonishingly monolithic. Yes, there are differences, which can seem astonishing, but that's only because the differences are so small, they stand out when compared to the overall sameness.
If your thing is landscapes and natural beauty, North America is a phenomenal place to travel. If your thing is human culture, there's only really five places you need to visit in North America and you have a damn near perfect grasp of the whole thing.