hey, well me and a friend are likely to be spending a bit in america helping out on an organic farm, and afterwards we kind of want to spend a week just backpacking around the area. We'll be spending a few days in Memphis, then helping out in Arkansas (Fayetteville, near Little Rock), but afterwards want to visit Dallas, New Orleans etc Where we go is kinda dictated on cheap places to stay.
So, is there anybody here around the southern states? who might be able to provide a couch(and floor) for two europeans? I'm... Kaworu, a pretentious liberal hippy douchebag, and she's this cool german girl (I have no idea why she's excited about helping out with organic farming... but blegh)
Also really, what kinda things are there to do/see in the area?

not sure you'll have much luck backpacking, america is automobile hell especially in the suburb-dominated inland south. there's also nothing to do in the south but go to barbecue shacks. don't mention politics to anyone you don't know/trust.

I live in Virginia man, if you're up around my area you definitely need to come hang out

the south overwhelmingly blows though, especially arkansas. there's not a whole lot of reasons to go to arkansas. if you're going to texas go to austin over dallas imo.

if you go to new orleans I'll meet up with you and show you around I live about five hours away but my uncle lives there. If you end up near pensacola florida which is north west on the panhandle near alabama I'll show you around there too, thats where I live.

New orleans is really fun, theres always stuff to do around there. Around the gulf coast you can do almost anything to do with watersports and fishing.

if you stay near enough to me I'll try to host you for a couple nights. I live with my moms but she shouldn't care since I'm paying her bills.

shiiit

yeah if you're gonna be in fayetteville i might be able to hook you up but idk. i moved back into my parents' place and i have no room at all but i'll talk to a friend of mine and see if he'd be down. his house is about twenty minutes outside the city limits.

definitely up for hanging out, too, but there's honestly not much to see! place blows if you stay on the grid. i bet there's some decent backpacking because if you leave town the area is beautiful but i wouldn't know personally. northwest is actually pretty diverse compared to the rest of the state but you're about thirty miles away from walmart world hq, so there's that specter looming over you.

dickson street has some decent bars and an okay music scene, but for music imo anywhere else you're planning on going is probably better (we just had our own knockoff SXSW and they really should've called it something else). EYE OF THE BEHOLDER i guess but i've been involved with the area for years and as far as events go, the dalai lama speaking at UA is it - and the keynote and panel are both sold out.

so yeah, if you really are just ITCHIN' to go to arkansas, i'll see what i can do.

america sucks and everybody  who lives there sucks too

i wish i culd like atari's post

Hello Hello, it's me Hundley with the CORRECT answers to this question:

The absolute best place you could go to when traveling in America is the airport, preferably one that will get you back home and away from this diseased cesspool as quickly as possible.

The second best place is anyplace that does not have any Americans present. I normally wait until around 2 or 3 in the morning to just roam around so I can avoid that whole WAKING HOURS thing that makes people so fucking eager to be outside or doing the things I want to be doing.

AMERICA FUN FACT:
Did you know that all the rumors about Americans being disgusting, ineffectual sloths are completely and totally true?? Imagine that!! An entire continent of obese cows, too busy furiously masturbating over their prized collection of Bruce Springsteen albums to remember to feed their children. It's amazing America hasn't sunk into the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean!!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
I wonder what the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans will be called when America eats themselves to death and sinks completely into the ocean. Will there be a difference between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans anymore??? Won't they be one big ocean? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WE'LL STILL HAVE FOOTBALL WON'T WE I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT MY FOOTBALL(s) JUSTIN BIEBER JUSTIN BIEBER JUSTIN BIEBER JUSTIN BIEBER JUSTIN BIEBER HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA® HA®

Have fun with that, most of my family that live in america are in the south. btw Atari, why do you have a quote of me in your sig? should i be worried?

i'm gunna call all my pals and tell em

watchit boys, yer gunna have yerself some FOREIGNERS in yer neck a the woods. better git yer sidearms ready

kaworu you seem to be confused.  nobody backpacks through america.
this is because it is impossible.

also, you had better have sex with this girl.  or i will delete your credit card (i work at the international credit registry now).

kaworu you seem to be confused.  nobody backpacks through america.
this is because it is impossible.

also, you had better have sex with this girl.  or i will delete your credit card (i work at the international credit registry now).

Yeah the only way this can work is if you either have an infinite amount of time or if by backpack you mean take Greyhound buses.

Justin Bieber is Canadian though...

i am going to be a BIGOT and blame america for justin bieber though

try and stop me

I'm within close driving distance of Memphis, it's really easy for me to go out and spend a day there if it happens to be the weekend.

All I really know about suggestions/sightseeing is food though. : (