Most boring state

[pstokely]

North Dakota (at least in the Winter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6c8bYq9Ve8

[EstimatedProphet]

1. My first thought was ND

[av8rdave]

2. solid

liquids, gas...they DO stuff. Solids just sit there.

[eyepaddle]

3. I think of that clip every time I'm in NoDak. It makes me feel sorta

special--to boldly go where no one...er, so few have gone before!

[kwassa]

4. Kansas is a close competitor

as we drove across endless flat miles of wheat fields, my wife wished for a compresson algorithm to compess the entire damn state.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. I find Kansas beautiful

I love seeing the horizon across the wildness of the fields. Of course, I'm biased, having been born and raised there.

[mwdem]

22. I agree with you.

The Flint Hills remind me of the ocean, and there once was an inland sea there. I'm from the east coast, lived in Kansas for 10 years. I've moved around a lot, and find something beautiful in every state I've ever lived in or visited.

[triguy46]

50. I'm with you. Love the Flint Hills. Beauty in simplicity. Limestone. Grass.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Kansas is pretty bad.

When I was a kid we lived in Colorado and used to often drive to Ohio to see my grandparents. Once we made it across Kansas, we felt like we were almost there. That state NEVER ends when you're driving west to east. Texas is that way, too. Miles and miles of not much.

[Arugula Latte]

34. Texas really messes with your mind when you're driving through it.

It just seems like you will never, ever get out of it.

[Release The Hounds]

47. One my happiest days

was leaving Ft Riley for good.

[Lorien]

6. Lol! North Dakota was about the first place that popped into my mind too

That video was hilarious. Quite a contrast to where I'm living now (Orlando). Our state may be tacky, but at least it's never that cold-or boring!

[ironflange]

8. I crossed all the way across ND once

South to north, and it was surprisingly nice. Gently rolling the whole way, fields of sunflowers, I would go back. It didn't get really flat until we hit Saskatchewan.

[Blaze Diem]

9. True about the rolling hills and there is much beauty as to the prairie

states, The air is clear and lots of natural untouched beauty in ND..But if you want to see a really FLAT area nothing beats west Texas, where I have stood and viewed the curvature of the earth's surface. The area around Midland is unbelievably flat.

True about the ND winters though. But don't cha know that the residents wouldn't live anywhere else. They like having all that open space to themselves.
And the fishing & hunting is supurb.

& the Badlands of west ND are incredibly beautiful, but you have to actually exit the main interstate to understand why this State joins the heart & heaven to its residents.
As the locals tell ya, "its the blessed awful winters that keep the riff raff out of our hair."

& that's the way they like it.

[nomorenomore08]

10. Most boring state I've been in? Probably Utah.

At least the deserts of Arizona were cool to look at. Utah, or at least the part I went through, was just miles and miles of flat nothing.

[XemaSab]

13. You should go to southern Utah

[XemaSab]

11. Nebraska

:snore:

[DeaconBlues]

29. I have to second Nebraska

Football and flat land. Not much else.

[fizzgig]

51. that state never, ever ends

i have to drive the length of that state to see my mom...i never thought i'd be so happy to see either wyoming or iowa :rofl:

[Blaze Diem]

12. One more thing..according to the Marathon Oil.com website..there

is more oil in the North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana area of the USA than Saudi Arabia. !!! Yep, the current oil boom happening right now along the tri-state borders, is due to the emergence of new technologies in horizontal drilling , necessary since the underground formations where the oil has existed for millions of years is extremely difficult to get to.
Nd, for one, is a State that allows this development but holds the energy related companies to some very strict environmental standards.
So if you need a job in this industry, and want some outstanding wages and benes. here you go. But you'll have to survive the winter at some point.
Thanks
BLaze

[TZ]

14. Sorry to our Buckeye friends but Ohio in my book

I've certainly spent enough time there to know! Driving to Cincinnati from the border of WVA was about a 5 hour drive and we used to ask my Dad how far to your house..and he said, just over the next hill..which was almost true!
(Yes, I'm aware of the rolling hills of Cincinnati and in northeast Ohio but please..Central Ohio....:boring: )

[madinmaryland]

15. Sheesh, Doc! Why do you trash everywhere I've lived??2??

BTW, my hometown makes all of the NFL footballs! No more footballs for Snyder!!1!!

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/2005-01-25-wilson-football-factory_x.htm

[TZ]

17. Because you lived there?

Why do you trash Delaware all the time?;-)
BTW, I trashed Ohio long before I knew you lived there..I have relatives from Cleveland remember..Is there an easier target to make fun of? Not many....;-)
(I don't really hate Ohio, having spent time/born there but there sure is a lot to make fun of...)

[madinmaryland]

19. Actually, we didn't consider Cleveland to be part of Ohio!

Especially after the Cuyahoga River caught fire and stayed on fire for several months.

BTW, there's alot to do in the NW part of the state, assuming you enjoy tipping cows!!1!!

:hi:

[Lorien]

31. I grew up in Columbus. Great theaters, Museums, parks, cultural

events....I now live in Orlando-certainly a tourism capital-but culturally it doesn't hold a candle to Columbus.

[QMPMom]

16. I remember begging my Dad to get me the hell out of Utah

when we were on vacation once. I thought I was going to die of boredom.

[Arugula Latte]

35. But Utah has such spectacular scenery

Moab, arches, canyons, layers of sediment, multi-colors, amazing configurations of land and rock ...

[Jade Fox]

45. Those are in the southern part of the state.....

Further north it's a wasteland.

[cynatnite]

18. Northwestern Oklahoma...nothing ever happens there n/t

[bookworm65t]

20. Indiana

going through IN on I-70 will convince you.

[PVnRT]

30. Yes, if you only stick to I-70

[Canuckistanian]

21. Delaware

Hi. I'm in Delaware.

[Hangingon]

33. I'd go to Rehoboth or Lewes at the drop of a hat.

[kwassa]

40. Hat dropped.

Get going.

[Hangingon]

42. I wish! I could use a Dog's Head a Raison d' Extra about now.

[doc03]

23. Michigan

Flat land, can't stand flat land, sand and shrubs.

[kwassa]

41. "Detroit, the Paris of the southeastern corner of lower Michigan"

I have a T-shirt that says just that.

Great place to be from.

[1gobluedem]

43. Clearly you've never been to northern Michigan

Leelanau, Mackinac, the UP -- all gorgeous. With lots to do.

[doc03]

55. No I haven't never been north of Grayling

I went to Grayling in 1970 for Army camp. I have a friend that goes to the UP for bird hunting every year. The way he talks it is flat land with scrub trees too, he said you can get lost very easily because it all looks the same. Great bird hunting though.

[Zavulon]

24. For me, it was most definitely Iowa.

Of course, after posting this I will soon learn that a few dozen DUers are from that state and love it, but I have never seen a more boring place. Apologies in advance to Iowa-based DU-ers.

[Critters2]

52. You should ride RAGBRAI! Or visit the Loess Hills,

cuz I don't think of this as boring:

[begin_within]

25. Not that the state is boring, but

[ashling]

26. Sanity

:shrug:

[Awsi Dooger]

27. Kansas and extending into eastern Colorado

Eastern Colorado is really glorified Kansas.

I don't like to knock any state but that stretch comes to mind first, based on driving cross country perhaps two dozen times.

The only memorable scenery in that area was the wheel well of my new camper when a flat tire shredded it, late '90s.

[Tektonik]

28. Can Norcal qualify as a state?

I like the Bay Area and all, but goddamn Stockton and Sacramento fuck the entire area.

[Deja Q]

32. I'd say the state of apathy

:shrug:

[Parche]

36. ND

Hey I was in ND at the Air Force Base
and I have seen 100 below with wind chill.....................:hi:

[nomorenomore08]

38. WOW... My uncle lives in Billings, MT, where it can get down to -20 in the winter, -40 at night, but

that's just ridiculous, even with the wind chill. Reminds me of that Jack London short story where the guy freezes to death.

[CatholicEdHead]

37. Nebraska is not much to look at driving across

[LSK]

39. no way, they got Pioneer Village

http://www.pioneervillage.org

[Jade Fox]

44. Nevada......

The parts of Nevada I've seen are like a wasteland.

[JohnnyLib2]

53. Hey! Them's fightin' words.

:spank:

[femmocrat]

46. Matrimony

Surprised no one else posted it.

[triguy46]

48. State of denial.

[Edmond Lesueur]

49. Alaska

What the hell can one do in Alaska? Watch TV in an igloo?

[Broken_Hero]

54. Oklahoma,

but I admit, I gotta a bias.

[ironflange]

56. The state of ennui

I've been spending too much time there lately.