We're so far out in the sticks we get excited when...

[Stig / Major Tom]

....we see a Greyhound bus, with "LOS ANGELES" above the windscreen, stop here for passengers!
Our 'bus station' is a laundromat.😊..then he pops back onto westbound I-70!

Stig-in-the-sticks

[Kansas kymco]

There use to be a bus stop in McPherson decades ago in the Opera house building. Now the Greyhound bus stop is in Salina (just off I-70). The Opera house building had a old fashion soda fountain on the ground floor that also was the Greyhound terminal. 

[randyo]

nothing happens exciting here, we don't even got a bus depot... But, being New Hampshire, every 4 years we have people hanging around at the local landfill, shaking hands, passing on corona virus while they profess to be the next great president of these United States, I swear there are people campaigning for 2024 already

[Kansas kymco]

One of my favorite things is to go on ROMEO rides to small towns in the middle of nowhere. The only business left might be the local cafe that serves as a multipurpose building for the community.  Some have very good home cooked food. If it wasn’t for the riding group I would have probably never have seen these small communities despite living in KS most my life.

I take county roads that get very little use and  in good condition . I avoid the interstate even if it means going out of my way. I usually ride between 55-60 mph so not in a hurry.

The road less traveled.

[Kansas kymco]

Another good example of remoteness is driving across Canada. When you get out of the metropolitan areas it gets (out in the sticks) in a hurry.
The only business in some areas might be a gas station /store with a few homes.

[randyo]

are there any towns that are not polluted with Dollar Generals

[Kansas kymco]

are there any towns that are not polluted with Dollar Generals

Bring your scooter and I can show you lots of towns without a dollar general.

[Ex-KLR]

The road to our house.

[randyo]

Bring your scooter and I can show you lots of towns without a dollar general.

we don't have one in our town, but all the surrounding towns have one, I think their business model is to go in the worse possible location. The ones around here are always empty, at least their parking lots as I go past, I've never actually been in one.   

[Kansas kymco]

we don't have one in our town, but all the surrounding towns have one, I think their business model is to go in the worse possible location. The ones around here are always empty, at least their parking lots as I go past, I've never actually been in one.

Usually they are in towns not large enough for a Walmart. I've bought grocery items from them in a small town.

[randyo]

Usually they are in towns not large enough for a Walmart. I've bought grocery items from them in a small town.

yup, Walmart is in the one surrounding town that doesn't have a Dollar General, The town I live in is larger than the towns with a DG, but smaller than the Walmart town, we gots a hardware store/lumber/garden center, a NAPA, a Rite Aide, a couple of pizza take outs and 2 places to buy gas, and a decent breakfast/lunch sit down restaurant. The largest employer in town is the school district

[scooterfan]

......we visited grave yards during previous visits to the US. Flowers and National flags could be seen everywhere. Extremely neat and well maintained. A world apart from what we have back home - people who are employed via tax payer’s contributions can usually be found sleeping under nearby bushes. Weeds around graves are often at belt hight and when we visit graves of beloved ones we often have to remove weeds around the graves ourselves. Flowers and flowe pots get stolen and often ends up at another grave. Pointless to put up flags - flags will get stolen by people who think they own the whole continent......
We are so far out in the sticks, it is totally unbeleavable.

 

[christianblessing]

Once upon a time I could ride my old Vespa south for not too many miles where one could see telephone and power lines coming from the south rather than from the north. Missing my casual and easy forays into Mexico. [emoji895][emoji1166][emoji1166][emoji895]

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[OldCoot]

When we bought our 1st home many years ago in Fredericksburg, Va., 60 miles south of Washington, it was a quaint little town with a Greyhound Bus station. I caught the bus and rode it into DC everyday for work. They had a great weekly, round-trip rate. I loved living in the boonies. It was a great time.