I'm am so glad you enjoyed it and yes! The Texas panhandle is it's own kind of country. There was so much variety and not all if it is flat. I kept coming across unexpected little turns in the road and so many different kinds of weather, it was amazing. The boring part (but interesting in its own way) is the backbone of Kansas, up Highway 83, which is a route I took one year, and where I got part of the idea for this story, that Sam spends a LOT of time staring out the window watching the grasses go by.

Thank you for your lovely comment. : D