"I inverted the image of the map from his letter in my mind and
began driving south to the highway. After a few moments I turned off the
headlights and rolled down the window. I listened to the tires crushing
gravel in the roadbed. The sound of it helped me hold the road,
together with instinct and the memory of earlier having driven it. I
felt the volume of space beneath the clear, star-ridden sky, and moved
over the dark prairie like a barn-bound horse."
Barry Lopez, "The Mappist."
