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by townlineterry » Thu Sep 06, 2018 4:55 pm
In the interest on full disclosure I admit to being clueless tourist myself. last fall wife and I took a cross country road trip. We tried to stay off the interstate as much as possible. We ended up going through the Sand Hills of northern Nebraska. This is cattle country, open grassland with ranches miles apart. So we were headed west from Valentine, had the Gazetteer that shows the back roads. We decide to follow the ranch roads west.
After a couple of hours we figured out the map and roads we were on did not jibe, we were lost. Finally saw a ranch, so we stopped to ask directions. Pulled up in our little Kia, not the vehicle to be wondering around in that country. So I walk op to these two cowboys, say "I'm not really lost, just confused". That got a smile from them, the kind I give to tourist around home, pay back you know.. One says, very wisely, "that can happen out here."
Anyhow they gave use directions. About another five miles down the road I'm beginning to wonder, because the road, or I should say trail at this point is getting worse by the mile. I see a truck headed our way so I pull over and get out. This rancher pulls up, looks at me, then at our car, and in true under statement says, "you're lost." So we had a nice conversation for about 15 minutes and he gives us more directions that in time got us to the main highway.
Nice folks, those Sand Hillers, probably still laughing about those fools from Pennsylvania.
Terry
Next I'll write about how we got lost and caught in a blizzard IN Colorado, we had the best vacation.