Posted on 08/05/2024 10:40:48 AM PDT by rktman
In May, my husband and I embarked on a second honeymoon. It was almost the only trip we've taken together since our first honeymoon 34 years ago. Because we've owned livestock for most of our married life, we haven't traveled together in over three decades.
We rented a car and embarked on a leisurely, planless trip around the Southwest. We visited parts of Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana before returning, tired but happy, to our snug North Idaho homestead. We avoided cities and instead focused on exploring the vast beauty of the West's wide-open spaces and visiting small towns, roadside attractions, lesser-known museums and other destinations that gave us a sampling of America's flyover country.
The one overwhelming factor during this trip was how unpopulated so many areas of the West actually are. Traveling through interior Nevada, for example, it was not unusual to go hours without passing through a town, and then the town might be no more than a couple hundred people. Because of these large tracts of unpopulated areas, we made it a policy never to let the gas tank get below half full.
Over and over and over on this trip, my husband and I remarked to each other how useless an electric vehicle would be on such a journey. We traveled through vast – vast – stretches of road without a gas station, much less an EV charging station. Yet politicians think we can transition to EVs with nary a problem. My only conclusion is these politicians have never set foot outside of the crowded urban areas of the East or West Coast. I know this may come as a surprise to them, but there's a lot more to America than big cities …
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I almost ran out of gas traveling through southern Illinois during my trip from Seattle to Florida. My gas needle was near empty and no gas stations to be seen for miles. Finally saw a BP gas station, and prayed it was open and not out of gas. Fortunately it was open and had gas.
Absolutely riveting account!
That flew by me as well.
You have to care for the livestock constantly and therefore cannot both leave.
Yes thanks. I would have gladly paid $10/gallon to avoid spending night in some desolate area on side of road.
When you have livestock, getting a substitute for care is expensive and difficult. One stays home to tend the livestock while the other travels.
There are a lot more dog sitters than cow sitters - and dogs don’t need as much attention on a daily basis.
If you own livestock, vacations are few and far between. Weekends? Late sleeping? NOPE!
LOL!
Nothing to think about if you owned livestock.
Unless you have a hired hand on the property 24/7 you just don’t/can’t leave the place for extended periods.
Animals are an anchor.
“Complication No. 1: The totally predictable stupidity of people. At a gas station, there might be one person who parks their car at a pump and then goes into the convenience store for a bathroom break – but there are still multiple pumps available.
I had this occur at a gas station recently, a woman fueled her gasoline powered truck at the only available gas/diesel pump. There were at least 5 or 6 other gasoline only pumps available and I sat there in my diesel powered truck waiting for her to finish pumping her gasoline and move out of the way. But instead of moving, she decides that she needs to go inside for several minutes and left her truck sitting there, blocking the diesel pump. When she finally comes out, she looks at me waiting to get fuel and gets into her truck and starts to fiddle with he phone.
The more I know people the more I like my dog.
Difference between city boy and country boy. My family own horses.
The more I know people the more worried I get that they will vote for Kamala.
They don’t understand. Under the New World Order, proles will need special permission to travel anyway. No road trips for the 99%.
Self-absorbed narcissists... Their time and convenience are all they think about.
Electric vehicles the Disposable Razors of Transport
lol. attempted elitist snark.
Sounds like, city boy
You are doing something wrong.
I know my land can support 3 cows
So that is all I ever get.
Yes they need watering but that is automated.
I only give them treats. They have plenty of food.
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