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RE: Somewhere in Middle America
We used to love our road trips down to Sedona and, you're right, it does remind you of how vast America is. I was surprised by how desolate much of the middle of our country is. On our route to Arizona from Minnesota cities became few and far between after Kansas City and there were quite a few abandoned or nearly abandoned towns. I was very thankful for cruise control on those four day drives. : )
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That's part of what I found really sad about things. When you are heading across on I-70 or I-80 you see a lot of old exits with maybe a burned out gas station or some other buildings. You think about how before cars could travel such long distances those were probably major hubs and had all kinds of traffic and stories to tell.
It is sad. Guymon, OK was always our little oasis and we'd stop there for the night before our push to Albuquerque. It's not a big town but all the essentials are there. There's a whole lot of nothing between Kansas City and Guymon, mostly abandoned towns or towns barely hanging on. There's even less between Guymon and Albuquerque.
I remember in the 70's when so many of those little mom & pop roadside restaurants, stores, and attractions were still around. There were tons of smaller "motels" too. Most of them were already fading into history by the end of the 80's. I never thought about it before but the advent of more reliable cars with higher MPGs probably contributed a lot to the demise of those small, remote towns.
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