Now about them dunking donuts...when I left, they were in New Orleans...and had been since I was a kid.
But you should see the Fireworks for Sale signs in Wyoming! I do believe it's a major industry, to sell tourists fireworks that are illegal to shoot in Wyoming, but legal to sell.
I do admit to enjoying having left the land of fire ants. I used to garden barefoot so that when I got a fireant bite, I could immediately flood my foot with the waterhose, cause it made the bite sting less. I still have a number of little circular scars on my feet from the ant bites.
I miss the taste of water in the air, the sweet voices from North Mississippi, that nasally sounds of east Texas, the almost Brooklynese of a proper New Orleans Yat...and Magnolia grandiflora...and crape myrtles...
Can take the Southerner out of the south, but probably never take the south out of the Southerner...
It's the humidity that makes the South different. The layer of moisture that comes out of the Gulf of Mexico which is the most obvious in the Great Smokies, along with the heat that even effects our manner of speech.