Reply #8: I lived in the countryside in Germany. There aren't really very

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many open spaces of the kind you find here in Wyoming or the western U.S. Try driving from L.A. up the eastern Sierras. There you see wide open spaces. I cannot think of any area in Europe in which there are national wilderness or park areas of the size of King's Canyon, Yellowstone or other American national parks of that size.