Comments on: Celebrating The Emptied Prairie, Again http://bismarckndblog.com/2008/03/25/celebrating-the-emptied-prairie-again/ Life in the Bismarck area, as well as the North Dakota lifestyle, upcoming news, agriculture and the ever-popular renewable energy industry. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Clint http://bismarckndblog.com/2008/03/25/celebrating-the-emptied-prairie-again/#comment-2515 Clint Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:36:10 +0000 http://bismarckndblog.com/2008/03/25/celebrating-the-emptied-prairie-again/#comment-2515 I love to get out in the middle of nowhere and look around, exploring backroads and such. That's where a lot of my photography comes from! One thing unique to American culture is the cross-country automobile trip. Those voyages "into the great wide open" are why American cars in the 60s and 70s developed into big land barges, with spacious passenger accomodations and enormous trunk compartments. Contrast that with the little econo-boxes that developed in Europe, with narrow streets and shorter journeys. My little boys are too young to enjoy (or remember) a family vacation, but when the time comes we will be going by car. To fly over the USA is to miss its best parts. And it's hard to pull over and enjoy the occasional roadside oddity! Clint BismarckMandanBlog.com I love to get out in the middle of nowhere and look around, exploring backroads and such. That’s where a lot of my photography comes from!

One thing unique to American culture is the cross-country automobile trip. Those voyages “into the great wide open” are why American cars in the 60s and 70s developed into big land barges, with spacious passenger accomodations and enormous trunk compartments. Contrast that with the little econo-boxes that developed in Europe, with narrow streets and shorter journeys.

My little boys are too young to enjoy (or remember) a family vacation, but when the time comes we will be going by car. To fly over the USA is to miss its best parts. And it’s hard to pull over and enjoy the occasional roadside oddity!

Clint
BismarckMandanBlog.com

]]> By: Kate http://bismarckndblog.com/2008/03/25/celebrating-the-emptied-prairie-again/#comment-2505 Kate Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:44:40 +0000 http://bismarckndblog.com/2008/03/25/celebrating-the-emptied-prairie-again/#comment-2505 On our honeymoon, we stayed Ann & Alistair in Scotland. During their visit to the US in 1998 they traveled by train from Washington to Illinois. I think I was sharing some thoughts about living in South Dakota after living in mountainous Idaho most of my life. Dear Alistair said he loved traveling through the plains, that in that wide, open space your mind just opened up, spread out. Now I know what he means. On our honeymoon, we stayed Ann & Alistair in Scotland. During their visit to the US in 1998 they traveled by train from Washington to Illinois. I think I was sharing some thoughts about living in South Dakota after living in mountainous Idaho most of my life.

Dear Alistair said he loved traveling through the plains, that in that wide, open space your mind just opened up, spread out. Now I know what he means.

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