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Driving through Nebraska twice nearly broke me. The people who live there must be among the hardest motherfuckers alive. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I drive through it a few times a year, living in Denver but have family in Minnesota/Wisconsin. As crazy as it sounds, at least you have small towns and corn fields along I-80. There are some areas in Colorado (stretches of I-76, US-287 between Hugo and Kit Carson) where there's just... Nothing. Like, you'd be surprised at how much more empty a corn field can be, and it totally does weird you out how far you are from a simple gas station, let alone a familiar McDonald's (neither of those towns have that; I believe you'd have to go from Limon to Lamar to get from one McDonald's to the next on that road, which is almost 2 hours)

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago*

    I lived in Utah for 6 years and loved driving through the empty parts of Utah and Colorado. Even Nevada sort of a little bit. I found it a far more stark, imposing, beautiful emptiness. Like "I could literally die if I broke down here...that's so cool." I remember one time driving out from SLC to Dinosaur, CO for the dispensary, and that stretch was just stunning. At one point, I had two dust devils spinning off to my right, and a rainstorm way off to my left over these lush, Shire-esque rolling green hills. I miss the west already.

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