Have you ever been so far way from everything you cannot hear, or see man?

Question

Not just voices, but no cars, not even distant highways, not even airplanes. No sounds of industry....not one singel man-caused noise? You couldn't see a single power line, not lights off in the distance..no houses, no cars, no people.

Nothing but nature.

Where were you? How did it make you feel to be that far from everyone?

Answer 1

Heaps of times. I have been 1000's of miles from land, spent weeks away at sea. Just awesome, otherwise obviously I would not do it...

  I have also spent a long time in some very 'simple' coutries, that barely even have a road. It was incredibly to see no signs of civilisation for such an extended period, no mobile phones ringing, no converations about property prices, no vapour trails, etc. When we sailed back to fiji we passed Nadi international airport on the way to the port and myself and my friend stood in the cockpit with are mouths open just mesmerised. This is fiji remember and not LAX. It seemed like some kind of incredible firework show...

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Answer 2

As a cross country para-glider pilot living in SW Colorado, I have had many flights that take me many miles over forests and deserts... My last flight of 2007 landed me in the middle of an Apache Indian reservation in Northern New Mexico, and as I came in on approach, there were no roads, trails or any sign of humans within the huge valley I was landing in. I have a GPS so I was not lost, but there was no cell phone reception and I was way out of radio contact. It was 12:30pm when I landed, and 11:30 pm when I walked out and got a ride.

It was awesome, I was pretending I landed on a new planet and was it's first explorer. I drove back to the same place to show my wife where I had landed about a month ago, and there were three drilling rigs in the valley that had arrived during the 90 days or so from when I landed there...

I wept... but then a big white 4-door pickup truck drove by us at 60+ mph and threw so much dust on us that the sorrow turned to anger in a flash... the topper was the guy in the pickup truck flipped us off for no reason. We were just standing there minding our business.

Welcome to the 21st Century... how sad.

Answer 3

While I was in the military, I was stationed in Alaska ...

It was the first time in the world I've felt so small and meek ..

Answer 4

You can try the Gobby desert! It's only 10 hours from Beijing and  has the most increditable landscape I've ever seen. But you can also go to the Tibetian mountains landscape and try to find the real Shangrila... it's trought paths and ways never yet found... at least you won't see since the paths disapear with quite ease.

It's impossible to describe the power of the silence. The mistic ways on our minds. You feel real unique and in touch with the rest of the universe.

but you need to try... told it hasn't the same taste.

Answer 5

I was on my mother in laws land in Butler Tennessee.  I love it there.  I have grown up in places like this.  The fast pace of our world today makes me very anxious.  When I need a break me and the husband take off to Butler.

Answer 6

I would settle for just being somewhere where I wouldn't have to listen to Hollywood celebrities blathering on about things they know nothing about.

Answer 7

Yes. I was at the dead end of a mountain pass road in the Sierras of Northern California.

I live in Los Angeles and it was an awesome feeling to only hear the wind blowing thru the trees.

Answer 8

Many times...

The "west desert" here in Utah is just such a place.  I like to drive out along the old Pony Express Route - it's a graded dirt road, but when you get out there, you're often the only vehicle for 40 or 50 miles.  Granted, on occasion when you're out in the west desert, you'll see military jets flying over, or an occasional commercial airliner - but you won't see much more.  One thing I like to do when I'm out along the Pony Express Route, is to imagine what it was like for those hardy souls who delivered the mail along that route.  Traveling by horseback - or in a stagecoach or on a wagon - through an inhospitable desert with very few water sources...  Desert heat that will dry you out, or blinding snow & cold in the wintertime.  Flash floods, hurricane force winds, hail, etc.  It wasn't an easy way to travel.  Yet people lived in those areas that would be deemed as "wastes".  The Native Americans knew where to find water, and how to obtain food out of pretty much anything...

I also like hiking in the Oquirrh Mountains here in Utah.  It's not a large mountain range, but you can become "lost" in them...  Areas I mainly explore are old mining camps.  One of the things that really amazes me is the amount of effort that was expended to extract a living - and the conditions the miners endured.  One such camp was called "Jacob City".  It was located at approximately 8,000 ft. elevation at the top of a narrow, steep canyon.  There aren't really any springs in that area, so the canyon is dry...the snow piles up in the winter...  Conditions were harsh.  Yet for awhile it was one of the largest silver producing areas in the district.  

The last time I was up there, I saw one person - and that person didn't see me - riding along on his ATV on one of the old access roads.  I'm guessing that person was scouting for deer...  After he was gone, I was truly alone...

Yeah, after experiencing areas away from civilization - and reading/imagining/etc. how it was to live without our "modern conveniences" - you realize just how "soft" we humans have become...  It's also a good way to give yourself time for introspection...  When you're away from pretty much everything, you have time for just you.  You can ponder things without being interrupted, and it's rather nice.

That's why I'm a desert rat at heart.  I love it out there.

Answer 9

I was in the middle of nowhere. Has anyone ever been in the middle of nowhere? Well it's pretty quite out there,...... no cars, humans, and especially electricity. What's weird is that I did happen to have this strange looking flashlight. It helped me kill all the little monster things that kept trying to jump me.

Oh well, I wonder how I got out of there, perhaps a car driving by woke me up.

Answer 10

I was about 15 miles from my home in the Kootenai National Park near Kalispell, Montana.

It felt kind of different not seeing anything or hearing anything man made. It felt serene. No powerlines, or anything.