?ÿThe wife and I have been binge-watching Longmire on Netflix lately. It's a great show, but the real star is the Wyoming scenery. You have to understand that down here in Coastal Georgia, we are flat as a pancake. We have our areas of scenic beauty, too, but the landscape out there is so different than ours. I had the pleasure many years ago to drive through Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, and I will never forget that trip. We don't really have a sense of the wide open that ya'll do, unless you get out on the salt marsh at high tide. We basically drive on roads through tunnels of trees and vegetation, and our visibility is generally limited to the edge of the pine forest along the road as you drive along. Our idea of a large farm field is maybe a hundred acres, and I'm sure they have some larger ones in middle Georgia, but out there, you can see for miles. When I retire, it's going to be number one on my bucket list to go back out there to Wyoming and just ride around. I'm looking forward to it.
Dale Yawn
Savannah, Ga.
Longmire was written by a local Wyoming resident, however, it isn't filmed in Wyoming. It's mainly filmed in New Mexico.
There is plenty of open country in both states. ??ÿ
I do love Savannah, I got a bit claustrophobic in Hilton Head.
I just got back from Central Kansas attending a Wetland Delineation course. We visited and did some fieldwork at the Cheyenne Bottoms. The area is approximately 40000 acres. As a Southern boy from Kentucky, I was awe struck. You could fire a high powered rifle in any direction and not hit anything.
http://www.naturalkansas.org/cheyenne.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Bottoms
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Wide open spaces.?ÿ
?ÿYou could fire a high powered rifle in any direction and not hit anything.
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Wide open spaces.?ÿ
I had a rifle like that once!
James
?ÿYou could fire a high powered rifle in any direction and not hit anything.
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Wide open spaces.?ÿ
I had a rifle like that once!
James
Well you know what I mean...
Was at my cousins place, you can go up the hill above the main house and see the Tower and some of the Black Hills?ÿto the east, the Tower is probably 30-40 miles away, then to the west you can see very clearly much of the Big Horns which would be +90 miles to the west. Clear skies are worth a lot. ??ÿ
I've been told city people frequently get whatever the opposite of claustrophobia is when the get exposed to wide open spaces. ?ÿImagine driving over 70 miles without a bend of any kind in the road. ?ÿImagine ?ÿseeing something 100 miles before you get to it. ?ÿImagine driving for three hours straight at 65 miles per hour and having no cell phone service whatsoever throughout the trip.
At my previous home I could see 14 towers of various sorts from my front yard. ?ÿThe nearest was about 8 miles distant. ?ÿSomething like a 20 mile drive to get to the one most remote.
I learn something every day. I did not know that Longmire was filmed mostly in New Mexico. Beautiful place. Wyoming is beautiful, too.
Holy Cow makes a real good observation. When I went out to Texas, the drive from Dallas to El Paso was like that. I had never seen such wide open spaces before. I was too awestruck to get whatever the opposite of claustrophobia is. I remember seeing the mountains in front of me and thinking that they must be 10 miles away, and still looking at them in front of me 100 miles later. Our world is real big, isn't it?
Mighty Moe - Hilton Head is OK for those who have never seen the beach before, but it is waaaaay too crowded for my taste. I worked over there during the development circus years, and before all the buildings went up, it was a nice place with a great Gullah/Geechee Heritage. Savannah is getting big, but we at least are trying to preserve the old buildings, parks, squares, etc. that make a place worth living in. Come see us when you can. Shrimp is on me.
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Dale Yawn
Savannah, Ga.?ÿ?ÿ
Longmire is a great show. Watched until it left regular TV and went subscription and local download speeds not great for streaming.
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