There are stretches of open country where the roads run in straight lines and the land is so vast and featureless that descending into the long sweeping arc of a valley can make a person lose all sense of scale and orientation: you could swear the road is dropping out from under you, and the earth at the far end of the valley is bending into the sky. --on the I-10 in Western Texas

There are stretches of open country where the roads run in straight lines and the land is so vast and featureless that descending into the long sweeping arc of a valley can make a person lose all sense of scale and orientation: you could swear the road is dropping out from under you and the earth at the far end of the valley is bending into the sky. --on the I-10 in Western Texas