I constructed the modern day spatial imaginary of the Kenyon quadrangle from my own perspective that relates the way in which I interacted with the space — by driving through it. The quadrangle is easy to ignore if one is simply passing through. Highway 54 takes them directly through it without even a consideration of the terrain, weather, or distance to the nearest town. Vehicular travel has opened up both the immediate world and the larger world of much of the population, but as we have seen, the opening up of the world can also mean that other elements of it shrink at the same time.

Throughout its history, the environment of the Kenyon quadrangle has been defined by the ways people traveled through it. Its existence as a space in the imagination of the people who lived there depended on their ability and willingness to move around in it. Movement of the first settlers was often restricted by environmental conditions, and so their rural plot became their only immediate world. This expanded through the necessity of reliable mail service, which consequently determined settlement and movement patterns through the quadrangle as people traveled along roads or cross-country to send and receive mail. Movement through the quadrangle today is restricted by the road system. Modern agricultural methods have led to larger land plots and a less populated countryside. Much of the landscape is invisible beyond what can be seen out of the window of a car or one of the few scattered farmhouses. It is experienced more distantly than it was in the past as modern travel methods and routes allow for ignorance of the landscape that people in the past could not afford. Today we like to think of the world as entirely accessible to travelers, but it could be argued that it is smaller than ever. Because of our primary methods of travel, only a portion of the world within specific parameters can be experienced at all.