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To: Neeka who wrote (187252)11/21/2009 6:35:03 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
I gather from the confusion of non-southerners re hollows, that it is a southern word for it, which increases my curiosity of the history of the term.

also, I think in the tight gaps/passes/whatever... they are more intense here, though I've seen pics from the PA hills that are similiar.

a hollow is a pass you can do a road down that is pure one car wide, or at best 1 1/2. and you have spots you can manage to stick a house on one side and or the other. is that gully like?

where I have been off the big roads in are TX, New Mexico, AZ and CA (aside from southern). My feel of the physical country of other places is scant.



To: Neeka who wrote (187252)11/21/2009 6:40:56 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
ravines and canyons I think of in terms of southern cal. bigger spaces. deeper spaces. a hill there is what is called a mtn down here. :)

the spaces between. a hollow is an 1/4 inch to a canyon's 2 inches. or perhaps kinda like that.

and the trees are thicker in the south. denser.

first time I drove over the grapevine in CA I was amazed at the brown in summer. brown in summer???


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