A Response to Martone's "Flatness"

It is interesting that some of us as travelers aspire to see the background of a given area, not just brochures at a rest stop.  However, we still take the route most travelled (interstate) and Martone illustrates, that the "interstate defeats our best intentions."   The stereotypical flatness of the Midwest of America to travellers holds true to those seeing it from a modern road.  It isn't until you travel deep into the heart of these states that as Martone points out, one might begin to see the flatness' "slight unevenness."  Martone points out the significance of the Midwest's flatness in accordance with its geology and its necessity to ecosystems.  This reading sparked something in my mind I would have never thought about, let alone write about.  So I appreciate his thoughts on it.  However, he goes through a whole spill of beautiful, visionary writing and then in the last paragraph says "Perhaps I make too much of geology, topography imprinting on our lives."  To me, I think, that is the inspiration behind this text and that he second guesses.  I don't know, I feel as though he didn't need to make a mention of questioning his motives for this particular writing.  Although I do relate and understand his ideology.  And I feel that topography does effect us in some way, even subconsciously.