Having a ranch in such a remote part of southern Virginia has some interesting consequences. Because my home in northern Virginia is about a four hour drive from the ranch in southern Virginia, I try to stay down there several days at a time. Through experience I have found my natural limit for being on the ranch to be about six days. This limit is due largely to the fact that I have virtually no human contact while at the ranch. Though I do have Internet access there, my data quota is limited and reading emails is not the same as talking to real people. Often the closest I will come to real human contact is viewing a vehicle driving along a distant road. After six days of this isolation, I've found that my frame of mind shifts too much for my own comfort. It is at this point that I will sometimes start talking to myself out loud and I even once caught myself thinking that the bison looked like gigantic furry people faces on legs.
