benkling:

Get in your car. Go drive to the Everglades in florida, where you can watch alligators swim by your car in the canals along the highway. You want diversity? Fly to Portland, take in the flannel and denim garb of that culture, and then down to Dallas, and compare the two. Then tell me America is homogenized.

Motherfucking South Dakota…do you even KNOW what is in South Dakota? There’s Mount Rushmore, surrounded by desert and great coniferous forests. There are the Badlands—look them up. That’s in your home country. There’s the Crazy Horse monument, so big that Rushmore could fit in the bridge of his nose, and that’s not even finished yet. That’s history in the making. There’s Wall Drug, an entire town of trading posts that began with a single drug store offering free ice water. There’s the Corn Palace in Mitchell, which was built and then rebuilt in an attempt to challenge the city of Pierre and steal the crown of state capital. It’s a fucking palace made of corn.

That is ONE STATE. We have FIFTY.

There’s Las Vegas, there’s San Francisco, there’s the Redwood Forest, the Boardwalk in New Jersey (my home state), there’s Kansas—long, huge, flat plains full of sunflowers and farmland. There’s Yellowstone, Denali, Arches and Yosemite. Devil’s Tower. Philadelphia and Boston. D.C., New York City. The National Aquarium in Baltimore.

The terrain, the people, the architecture, the folklore of every region in the US is as amazing and diverse as between any two European countries.

There are a million and a half tumblrs out there that post HDR photos of Europe. People reblog them like crazy and add things like “wish i lived here,” “someday i will see this,” “why cant these places be closer.”

Get your head out of your ass and look around you, friends!