This state will always have a special place in my heart. This is where my dad grew up and where my grandpa currently lives and vows to continue living till the day he dies. (When I was little, he told me his soul lived in the mountains, and he couldn’t go anywhere without his soul.) It’s not somewhere I’d want to settle down- I grew up in Iowa, and I couldn’t stay anywhere so dry and infertile for very long- but something about the land- the smell of sagebrush, the mountains, the endless skies- will always enchant me.