I took a trip down to Nebraska this weekend. The pictures are here:
http://www.jriver.com/photos/jimh/nebraska2003/I know a lot of people think it's flat, but it ain't necessarily so. Here's a sample.
http://www.jriver.com/photos/jimh/nebraska2003/DSC02518.JPGI took that picture just after this one:
http://www.jriver.com/photos/jimh/nebraska2003/DSC02517.JPGThat's Cory Palmer, who lives near where I was spending some time. Cory is standing at the fence where you can see more or less straight down a couple hundred feet, telling how there are a couple of dens of rattlers down the hill, and when folks hunt them, they usually find between 25 and 50 snakes. You can see I'm standing back a way.
We got there in Cory's middle pickup, not the go-to-town pickup, or the fence-mending pickup. It's the one he hauls a horse trailer with when he goes to rodeos.
We rode the pickup in through a barbed wire gate, and about a mile across a field, leaving the gate wide open behind us. "What about those horses?", I asked. "Aw, they won't go near the gate. They've been out in this field all winter."
It went on like this for about an hour, and I think it was one of the nicer rides I've had in the last few years. Cory is a gentleman, a determined young rancher, and has killed a lot more rattlesnakes than I plan to.
But the horses had one foot out the gate when we got back.