Maine
August 1992
Funny how we city kids were trained to ridicule areas of our country which are less densely populated than where we grew up. These are the places on the maps where there are fewer lines representing roads, the places we look at from our car windows while driving through and say, “There’s nothing here.” Flyover country.
As adults with a passion for the wilderness, these are exactly the places Lisa and I long to be. When those are motivated to say, in a sneering tone, “There’s nothing here,” what they are really saying is “There’s nothing here that has been developed, nothing civilized,” and even, “There’s nothing here like my home. Or my phone.” What they’re really saying is that they aren’t paying attention.
We seek these places because there is so much here.