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More states I love
 
 
Frank Cotolo
August 21, 2014
 
I have been all over the United States, from east to west and from north to south. Now, once again, I am going to use this blog to write about some of the states I love. These will be random remembrances but I know you will like them, especially if you live in any of these states.
 
Missouri was always called "The Show Me State" and when I was there once I ran into a group of men who started a club for men who exposed themselves in public. It was no surprise that when winter came they couldn't flash people without getting frostbite but that didn't stop them from publicly describing what was under their clothing.
 
New York is like any other state if you go outside of New York City. I was in Buffalo some years back and was surprised that an engineer of the Lackawanna Railroad Company allowed me to drive the train from Buffalo to Batavia, having never driven a train before.
 
I recall the mornings in Arkansas when the summer sun would paint the first hours of dawn with a shade of red I had never witnessed in any other state except Washington, Iowa, Kansas and New Mexico.
 
Speaking of New Mexico, I was amazed to find out that the federal government owns a lot of land there and on most of it is housed unavailable-to-the-public outposts titled Area 48, Area 49 and Area 50.
 
It was strange talking to blue-collar workers in Michigan when speaking of the United States since every one of them was convinced Kalamazoo was the original capitol of the country.
 
I was cross-country skiing once in Washington when my fellow skiers and I collided with cross-country skiers going in the opposite direction. In a matter of a half hour, the editors of "The Guinness Book of World Records" were on the scene to document that this was the first such collision ever to occur in cross-country skiing.
 
When I asked a member of the Guinness staff why they did not document the death that occurred from the accident (one of the people in the other group was fatally wounded from the collision) he said, "I don't know, I guess we missed it."
 
Should I mention Nevada? Well, I just mentioned Nevada but though it is a state that houses the famous Las Vegas and Reno but most of its other territories are sparsely occupied, I am hesitant to write about some of the things that happened in those two cities because my experiences have to do with sin, degradation and depravity and I am saving those stories for a book I call, "Sin, Degradation and Depravity in Las Vegas and Reno."
 
Soon I will tell you more about states I love.
 
Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.

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