msmoorad- Next time you come to the US, you should try the Midwest. If you get lost in rural areas out East, you tend to be lost in a forest. There are forests in some places of the Midwest, especially up off the the Great Lakes, but for a lot of Midwest, you get lost out in the rural areas, you're either in crop fields or pastures (grasslands depending on how far west you want to stretch the Midwest). I think a lot of people from further east can't imagine it when I say "we don't have any forests around here" (we have patches of trees but few that would qualify as a real forest).