Shirikami

The pickup truck drove down the lonely two lane highway and through the countryside with you behind the wheel. You watched as you passed through the occasional town, many of which were less of an established town and more like a bunch of houses or farms clumped around a central area which was usually nothing more than a gas station, a restaurant or two, and a few necessity stores like a supermarket. Between such bastions of civilization, there were large expanses of forests and farms, untouched