The big sky of Texas

You can watch all the cowboy movies you want, but you really have to go to Texas to see the big sky.

I saw it outside Houston in 2016. We were barreling along one of the satellite roads, heading for the airport, and there were the most massive clouds in the air before us. We were skirting a storm, and it felt like it went on forever. Those giant skies felt like nothing else I've ever seen in my life.

Maybe it's the flat land, or the high altitude of the clouds, but it was bigger and wider than anything. It has felt a little like that back home this year, with the air above the Canterbury Plains stretching a lot farther than the Auckland view I'd had for the previous years, but the big sky of Texas really was something else.