Not very , maybe a joke here or there about me being a Yankee but overall people are pretty damn welcoming . Texas was the nicest most polite place I ever visited . <| sep |> This is gonna get buried but here ' s my experience When I was 18 , 4 friends and I did a cross country road trip in the US starting from NY . We camped and traveled through all of the northern , Western , Southern and eastern states until we made it back to NY . Once we hit California , we decided to stay at a campsite in the Redwood forest , as per our road trip bucket list . After finding a decent place , we drove about 15 miles to the store for some amenities . Before the trip I had gotten my chest tattooed , and considering it was the middle of the summer in California , I was wearing a tank top I ' m a girl . The shop owner was walking around the store while the 5 of us scanned the isles , stopped in front of me and started ogling my chest . He made a few comments , assured me he wasn ' t staring at my boobs , and complimented the tattoo . Ok , not totally weird . So he rings us up , we start packing everything in the car and then head off . Come night time , I went down to the stream that was close to our tent while the guys stayed up by the fire getting wasted . I was gone for maybe 30 minutes before I walked back up and they ' re all looking at me like someone died . Apparently , while we were all packing up the car at the shop , one of my friends had been talking to the shop keeper and he had asked where we were staying . Not really thinking , my buddy told him and that was that . I had also left two post cards I bought on the counter , and the shopkeeper drove the 15 miles to our campsite , located our car and talked to the guys about how this was a nice area and he was delivering my forgotten post cards . They thought after the shopkeeper left , he went to go look for me because I was gone for a while and that ' s why they were so surprised to see me . So maybe not totally creepy but at the time I thought he was going to come back and murder us with an axe .