{"id":228,"date":"2006-06-01T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/228"},"modified":"2006-06-01T12:16:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T17:16:34","slug":"the-big-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/228","title":{"rendered":"The Big Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more shots from my recent road trip.&nbsp; I left Guymon Oklahoma and headed west to Boise City and from there to Clayton New Mexico.&nbsp; I picked up I-25 in Raton and in Tridadad Colorado I took 350 to La Junta, what was once a spur on the Santa Fe Trail, and then to Granada when I took 385 to I-70 in Burlington. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the territory I think of as the Big Empty.&nbsp; The high plains, where the wind is constant, the land gently swells like a calm sea of grass, and there is nothing, nothing between the little villages and towns but the random farm house here and there, and, sometimes, a line of high voltage towers that stand across the landscape in relentless single file from horizon to horizon.&nbsp; Driving it at night, the little towns appear out of the darkness like small galaxies, and the random house lights seem as isolated stars slowly drifting by you in the night, while overhead the light of the milky way blazes down over everything.\n<\/p>\n<p>I love travelling through this place.&nbsp; I&#8217;d go nuts if I had to live in it.&nbsp; I hear that once upon a time many pioneers did just that.&nbsp; But there is a solitude within me, that only this place speaks to.&nbsp; Somehow, it&#8217;s good for me to visit here.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/photos\/highway_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Highway 64, Near Guymon, Oklahoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/photos\/sign_gaymar_ok.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Sign &#8211; Guymon Oklahoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/photos\/grain_elevator_and_tanks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Grain Elevator And Propane Tank Trailors &#8211; Boise City Oklahoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/photos\/tracks.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Tracks Near Cheyanne Wells, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more shots from my recent road trip.&nbsp; I left Guymon Oklahoma and headed west to Boise City and from there to Clayton New Mexico.&nbsp; I picked up I-25 in Raton and in Tridadad Colorado I took 350 to La Junta, what was once a spur on the Santa Fe Trail, and then to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,31],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}