Well, actually, I've visited Colorado five or six times, and yeah, I know about its ranching roots. (And probably more about Charles Goodnight than anyone really should, heh.)

Like I said, what's odd to me is that what other people consider to be a trip to the "west" is to me a very long trip eastward. When people say, "I'm going to go out west," what automatically springs to my mind is the West *Coast*. And then to find out that no, they really mean the Great Plains -- it's just kind of weird to me. That was the entirety of my point. It was just a passing comment about how different people think about things differently.