The next best thing to hiking a remote forest trail is driving a remote back road seeing where it goes. I never get tired of it. Back when I was building natural gas pipelines in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi I drove all sorts of back roads, many of them ruts. I got stuck several times and I had to get myself out. That was back before cell phones. One had to be resourceful and have a shovel in the trunk. It was a grand time. I met a lot of really nice people. My strategy on buying right of way was to just not leave until I was asked to do so. I learned all about farming crawfish in south Lousiana, grass turf farming in Texas, and importance of blackland prairies in Mississippi.
