>>2760707I could definitely see how if youre into hiking mountains and big views, the north east would be best.
However for me the best "views" are going to a wetland in spring and early summer- lush with a carpet of trillium, violets, and jack in the pulpit, and more plants than you could ever learn, big oaks, streams flowing in filled with freshwater mussels. Or milling around under the biggest oak trees in the world with a curtain of Spanish moss catching a few streams of orange light near dusk, while an owl hoots and lightning bugs flicker with hound dogs baying in the distance.
I like to walk into a wood so thick you can barely pick your way through it- filled with every manner of plant packed in dense. Festering with sedges, grasses, shrubs, weeds, flowers, and vines... possums and racoons, and fox squirrels peeking out from a hollow of every tree- I like getting startled by turkeys and armadillos everytime I walk through the woods. The moment I see water I like to see a dozen ducks start whistling splashing off the water, and a half dozen turtles and alligators scramble into the water when I crack that first twig walking up. I like every step I take to be accompanied by a bullfrog quawking and scattering across the water. I like to see a snake slithering away almost every few dozen steps. I like to hear foxes screaming every hour on the hour.
I like there to be more grapes hanging from the trees than I could ever pick in August, I like the woods to be so thick with brambles, may pop, mulberries, plums, and crabapples and persimmons the whole woods have the faint scent of alcohol and rotting fruit from April to about October.
I like when I go sit in my chair at night and have a smoke, a light fog with the frogs and crickets making a defeaning roar, and then all of a sudden every thirty minutes or so they inexplicably stop in unison for a few minutes. Anyways I could go on but I think you get the point. To each their own.
