Yesterday and the day before we drove across southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Southern Idaho is relatively empty. Eastern Oregon is very empty - mile after mile of sage brush and the occasional juniper tree.
Southern Idaho is relatively flat, with the canyons carved by the Snake River winding here here and there. Eastern Oregon isn't flat at all, but rolling, quite dry, and mostly unpopulated.
If you have the impression that the U.S. is densely populated, crowded, and overrun, go visit eastern Oregon along US 20 - a classic blue line highway - and it will change your mind. Large parts of this great land have almost no population and substantial acreage is either lightly used pasture or unused at all.
You owe it to yourself to go see North America. The other DrC and I have visited 70+ countries and none contains as much spectacular scenery as the U.S.
