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Hello out there,
If you are coming from Europe or any other densely populated area of the world, it can be fascinating to just take a car and drive through the midwest of the United States. To experience this remoteness of driving on a straight road and not to see any buildings on either side all the way to the horizon is just incomparable. Especially in the open plains, you can lose any sense of time, by just following the road and watch the landscape go by. And just as you think, that everything looks the same, you realize how much it actually changed over the last couple of hours.
I was fortunate to experience this typical American feeling of incredible vastness on a road trip from Memphis to Las Vegas as I passed through the states of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Especially aside the much frequented interstates, when you can see no other car before or behind you, this feeling is unsurpassable.
For example was I driving up a small hill in the middle of nowhere near Santa Fe in the state of New Mexico, and as I reached its peak, the vast plains of the Midwest spread right before me. Of course, did I pull over, to enjoy the view unspoiled and not only through the windshield and for several minutes I was just standing there looking into the distance. Then I got my camera out of the car and walked to the middle of the street. From here I wanted to capture this view, just like I had it through the windshield from inside the car. And after adjusting the settings of the camera to the scenery, I had to press the shutter.