Solitude. Salvation. And the Mixed-Grass Prairie.

In the northwesternmost corner of Nebraska, the Oglala National Grassland spans over 94,000 acres of boundless Great Plains pasture. Here, the only thing you'll hear is the soft sound of delicate grass blades bending ever so gently in the serene breeze. Enter a land where sky meets meadow with only a few gravel roads carving the way to natural wonders. It's vastly uninhabited, but by no means empty, in the panhandle of the Cornhusker State. An expansive, all-embracing landscape. But way out there in the great wide open is where you can discover the most. The intangibles you may or may not have been seeking. Peace, quiet, or sometimes an influx of thoughts find you, way out there on your own. When you're in no man's land without a companion to yap with, you open yourself up to all kinds of introspection. Sometimes you realize what you really want or don't want. Sometimes those calm winds blow fierce, with little notice, and a storm suddenly strikes down and shakes up your world then spits you back out more awake and wise than you were before. You never really know what you're going to find when you're not searching. Realizations, signs, life lessons, a long-lost soulmate from a past life, a newfound friend, fossils, cash. You don't have to be in Nebraska, or America, or even the middle of nowhere, but solo exploration reaps great personal rewards. Listen to the universe, allow yourself to veer off course, and open yourself up to infinite new possibilities.