In the picture below, do you see the white dot to the left of center? That's my destination. It's amazing how far you can see those grain elevators out here on the prairie.
In thinking about my journey a memory came back to me of having these same travel thoughts once before. I recalled many years ago as young girl riding in a truck with one of my mother's cousins, going with them on a trip to the store from their farm in western Kansas. It seemed like such a long ride in wide open spaces with few buildings to be seen anywhere. I was unaccustomed to such long distances between short stops. I wondered how people could live so far from other people and places and now here I am, in the drivers seat.
I wish I would have had my real camera with me on this trip, the pictures above were taken with my phone camera. On the way home I saw a buggy pulled by a really nice looking team of horses and some sort of high clearance machinery coming at me that took up 3/4 of the road. I often see hawks, sometimes turkey vultures and one spot I've frequently seen scissor-tail flycatchers. There's the scattered deer and sometimes coyote. One thing I haven't seen much of is rabbits. In western Kansas I remember seeing the tall ears of jack rabbits a lot, but can't say that I've ever seen them here. What was long distances in my youth are now times for discovery and meditation, recalling thinking about such thoughts from my youth.
Post your view on the way to your grocery store and leave me a link in my comments along with thoughts you have on your journey. I'm interested in what kind of differences/similarities we will find.
