Oh for small towns and quiet roads

It’s a shock when you go from the serenity of the small country towns to the big city. That’s true worldwide!!

There is hardly any traffic here but when you go on the highway there is lots of traffic.

Sheep Yards! To me such a place would be a marvel to go and check out ! It can really be a contrast to be in a very low traffic area initially and then suddenly facing very heavy traffic.

When Pretty and I traveled a lot, the heavy traffic on some highways really annoyed me... I hate having vehicles zipping around me or blocking my path when I just want to go somewhere. Taking the back roads can be nicer traffic-wise, but it takes forever to actually reach our destination. I learned in my late teens not to go to big cities around Christmas or Thanksgiving or we'd just be sitting in traffic for hours. I've told the story several times about us driving through one city not too far from where we live when Pretty needed to use a bathroom and traffic was so slow she walked to a gas station a short distance ahead of our car and came back and the car hadn't moved. I had shut it off and was reading when she came back to the car. We sat there for another hour before I needed to start the car and pull ahead even with the gas station she used.

I hate that kind of traffic. Love the empty country roads

Such a culture shock between cities and small towns.

Same here, get out in the country and you rarely see many cars. Drive to the city and bam...a parking lot!

We avoid the freeways (that are not free) here as much as we can. Cars are all the time bumper to bumper.

There's always a lot of traffic on the highway.