We like to travel Texas and Utah in particular. Utah is so clean and the scenery breathtaking. Last year we stopped in St. George for several days, the older part, and that was very interesting. A really pretty small town. We toured the Mormon visitors center and planned on going to mass at the beautiful Catholic church but left too early for that. I am afraid the west is closing up faster than we would like but that is why we drive through Texas every so often. Still lots of open space there and it just feels western! I have heard that Crossville and Cookville, Tenn are considered good retirement areas. That is certainly a beautiful area also.
We like to travel Texas and Utah in particular. Utah is so clean and the scenery breathtaking. Last year we stopped in St. George for several days, the older part, and that was very interesting.<<<
St. George is lovely, we spent 2 nights there about 25 years ago, LOL, I was taking a college history of Mohave County class and it included a field trip to Pipe Springs National Monument, which is actually in Mohave County.
It was before the boom hit and still a lovely small town, lovely and I would have loved living there.
If you want a photo taking trip, go to Flagstaff, Az, cross over Page Dam and go into Utah, go the eastern route and when you get to the road that goes to Cedar City.
I took rolls of film, saw sights that I did not know existed, and fell in love with Utah on that trip.
I had intended to spend a night in Cedar City and go on to Reno, Nevada, where my brother and I thought we might like to retire.
Instead I spent the week in a cheap motel at Cedar City and never have got to Reno.
Like you, I require wide open spaces and less people is better, it is good that I am on the way out, for I would hate the next 80 years in this world.
I was born in the Panhandle of Texas, and that is an area that I do not want to live in again.