Describing remote or out or the way places

[asp3]

I was at a family gathering yesterday where we were wishing one of my nieces a fond farewell as she left to do some field work in her area of study. She'll be travelling to a remote location here in the US and used an interesting way of describing how out of the way it is. She told us it was over 1 and 3/4 hours away from the nearest WalMart.

I'm wondering if you, a relative or someone you know has used an interesting measure of how remote a place was.

 

[Pepper]

Is that a typo, @asp3? Eleven and a half hours?

 

[asp3]

Is that a typo, @asp3? Eleven and a half hours?

Thanks! Fixed it.

 

[horseless carriage]

I'm wondering if you, a relative or someone you know has used an interesting measure of how remote a place was.

A common Brit expression for somewhere off the beaten track is: "The back of beyond."

 

[jujube]

I'd list the one we use but it might offend some tender ears. Let's just say it involves the state of Idaho......

My grandmother use to say, "Out yonder, back a fer piece."

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Some of my travels as a nurse have taken me to local (within the service radius of my hospice company) but isolated places... I've described these places as "I went around the backside of the moon to get there" and "this location is in the corner of the medieval map, next to where it says, 'Here there be dragons.' "

 

[Aunt Marg]

• They live in the "boondocks"
• They live in the "toolies"
• He's a "mountain man"
• They live out in the "middle of nowhere"

Just a few I have heard over the years...

 

[Murrmurr]

• They live in the "boondocks"
• They live in the "toolies"
• He's a "mountain man"
• They live out in the "middle of nowhere"

Just a few I have heard over the years...

Also "Out somewhere in Timbuktu."
And "So far out you can't get pizza delivery."

 

[Pinky]

We call the boondocks - "the boonies"

The dark side of the moon.

 

[MarciKS]

Timbuckto or BF Egypt were my folk's faves

 

[Aunt Marg]

Also "Out somewhere in Timbuktu."
And "So far out you can't get pizza delivery."

LOL!

I remember "Timbuktu" from when I was a kid.

 

[Tish]

When my husband was alive and working as an Agronomist his work took him to very remote places, which he referred to as The boondocks, beyond the black stump and Whoop whoop!

 

[JonDouglas]

When I was a youngster (8th grade) I spent some summer time in an old lumber camp in Canada (Lake of the Woods) that was some 20 miles by water from the nearest village. Everything went in and out by flat back canoe, rain or shine. Miles isn't a necessarily interesting measure but the distance and trip was.