Yes, the Land Is "Bored" Flat and the Roads Are Even Straighter!! You Better Get Used To It. View Direct West.
"It seems huge, overpowering. The prairie here is huge but above it the hugeness of this ominous grey mass ready to descend is frightening. We are traveling at its mercy now. When and where it will come is nothing we can control. All we can do is watch it move in closer and closer. .. Where the darkest grey has come down to the ground, a town that was seen earlier, some small buildings and a water tower, has disappeared. It will be on us soon now. I don’t see any towns ahead and we are just going to have to run for it. .. I pull up alongside John and throw my hand ahead in a "Speed up!" gesture. He nods and opens up. I let him get ahead a little, then pick up to his speed. The engine responds beautifully—seventy . . . eighty . . . eighty-five . . . we are really feeling the wind now and I drop my head to cut down the resistance . . . ninety. The speedometer needle swings back and forth but the tach reads a steady nine thousand . . . about ninety-five miles an hour . . . and we hold this speed . . . moving. Too fast to focus on the shoulder of the road now . . . I reach forward and flip the headlight switch just for safety. But it is needed anyway. It is getting very dark."
20 Mi West of Breckenridge, MN. Having stopped to photograph a lone windmill here, I realize this is a good open place to "shoot" my second 360 deg full circle panorama.
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(Photo = 102-0298IrfanviewShrp ...... ZMM Page = 025 ...... WayPt = 017`|x|' 1355ft)