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MichaelGermany said:
Hi BG,

okay, okay, we got some really beautiful rivers and lakes here, but I've never been to America. The pictures and reports I read gave me a lot wanderlust. I'm very fascinated about your countryside as you are from our castles. Scandinavia is also not so far away okay, but America always excited and fascinated myself.

Lets look, maybe I will stay there in holidays, I've to check my finances


Michael

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Michael, hope you do get to make the trip, but get ready to redefine the word BIG. As an example, Oregon where I'm at is about the same size as Germany with a population of well under 4 million. Of that 4 million, 3/4 of them live within 100 miles of Portland, Oregon (our largest city).

What that means is there's not many of us left for the other 90% of the State. Montana to our NE is at least half again as large as Oregon ... population? 1.1 person per SQUARE MILE. Or another way of looking at it is your standing in a square 1.62 KM per side ..... you ARE the only one there.

I'm sure I'm off on this one but (if memory serves) the entire state of Wyoming has a population of about a half million.

You get the idea, lots of room to wander around in ... undisturbed.
Fred