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travelnutz
Mar 30, 2017Explorer II
We've been all over the western USA nearly a dozen times in our 52 years of RV'ing and even longer boating and yer with multiple occupants and a motor that will pull waterskiers. YES, I do have very detailed maps and charts and google maps/satellite view also just like others on this forum have access to. Satellite photo maps don't lie and there isn't squat water compared to the eastern half of the USA other than having more white water rapids for kayaks or rafts. "westend", maybe you should be the one buying a map or using google maps satellite view!
How many deserts, dry brush lands, and barren rock mountains are there in the eastern half of the USA from Minnesota east? Basically almost none! Whereas the western half has hundreds of thousands of square miles with these and they are DRY and many do not even have enough water to float a 20' boat other than in reserviors and just a few lakes compared.
The Great Lakes alone has over 95,000 square miles of water surface and is 750 miles long east eo west and that's not including the St Lawrence that is another 743 miles long and is wide and deep up to 250 feet deep and the entire 3,000 miles is all connected together connected together and navigable by ships even up to 800 feet long coming and going from the Atlantic ocean.
Doesn't even include the over 70,000 boat navigable inland lakes or the over a million miles of boat usable rivers just in the eastern half of the USA alone.
How many deserts, dry brush lands, and barren rock mountains are there in the eastern half of the USA from Minnesota east? Basically almost none! Whereas the western half has hundreds of thousands of square miles with these and they are DRY and many do not even have enough water to float a 20' boat other than in reserviors and just a few lakes compared.
The Great Lakes alone has over 95,000 square miles of water surface and is 750 miles long east eo west and that's not including the St Lawrence that is another 743 miles long and is wide and deep up to 250 feet deep and the entire 3,000 miles is all connected together connected together and navigable by ships even up to 800 feet long coming and going from the Atlantic ocean.
Doesn't even include the over 70,000 boat navigable inland lakes or the over a million miles of boat usable rivers just in the eastern half of the USA alone.
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