In Nebraska here, you can get a spectacular view just 30 miles out of Omaha or Lincoln. If you want to be absolutely stunned you can go to Valentine (north central Nebraska) and that is where they have amateur astronomy conventions. In august the meteor showers are breathtaking. You know it is a good view when a falling meteor burns the retinas a bit.

Even just outside Lincoln, not only can you see the Milky Way, but many college kids would ask me what the haze was amidst it...I would just reply, those are the rest of the stars...they always were stunned.

Perhaps this is why kids now adays have such big egos, they don't have to look up and see how insignificant they really are.

(Yes stores are allowed to include credit fees in their prices, and offer discounts to cash customers.)