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Yep @ganjafarmer ...

"... the American West is way less populated and has way more character."

... both of these points will be underscored and reinforced by my next post about where we stayed on this trip and the wonderful "salt of the earth" type people we met there. Just exactly what we needed in our crazy "new normal" post-COVID world ...

Yeah some sanity is welcome in an insanely wild world.