The landscape in the SW desert is completely unlike anything you find in Canada, except maybe for the badlands around Drumheller or Cypress Hills.

How odd that the sky seems closer in Indiana. Maybe the ceiling tends to be lower. People have said that European skies feel really 'close', but I never noticed that. I'm used to the prairie sky being absolutely enormous. To the point where culumonimbus clouds on the horizon look like tiny little puffballs.