Looking for the “real” America
It’s all real I guess, but I want to see where people actually live and what that is like.
When we travel we like to take the backroads as much as possible, to see what I call “real” America. You can get places pretty fast on the Interstate, but traveling by Interstate is much different than taking the two-lane blacktop through small towns across America.
A gas station-convenience store on the Interstate is not very different in Montana, Kansas, or anywhere else. There are the same national chain restaurants and fast food dealers along the Interstate no matter where you are. Still, if you need to make time, the Interstate is as efficient as you can get.
On our recent trip we took the Interstate from Kansas to Cheyenne Wyoming. From there we took the small roads as much as possible. But in Wyoming and Montana, very sparsely populated states, the differences in the Interstate and the small roads faded some.
The wife is a research fanatic and likes taking pictures of murals, statues and courthouses. I shoot everything and don’t care if we have an itinerary or not. I leave the “where we going” question to her and it works out well. We were headed to Glacier National Park, and I was starting to get concerned that we were hanging out in Wyoming too long. She…
