The average person would say that Montana is the most one of the most boring states, and some times it can be when you are on a 24 hour road trip where the majority of the time is spend going through it. Even though it can be boring, wait until you have a clear, cloudy day with plenty of sunshine. Where I come from there isn't very much open sky besides over a few fields. Except for that the rest is blocked by all the tree cover. So when I saw the vast expanse of rolling plain and endless skies I was mesmerized. There is just so much space, it's almost like taking in the whole sky at once. Add a few giant fluctuating masses of water vapor and I could watch the sky all day. The experience may not seem like much but it is utterly timeless, as if it you are the first being to lay eyes upon it. The clouds themselves add a whole other dimension to the scene. They are their own world constantly changing, creating new worlds and stories that fade slowly in the wind only to be replaced by new ones. These clouds are the same cloud that the first people saw when they came onto the plains, the same clouds settlers saw as they crossed the territory on their way west. When you watch the clouds you are literally going back in time. The vastness of it all is amazing, the patch-work plains stretch to watch seems like the edge of the earth. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't want to live permanently in a state where a single tree is a novelty but it's nice to visit. It's doesn't look like much at first but stay awhile and you will experience more than you know.
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