Alot of real world test I've looked in to have all basically concluded that synthetic's performance really stands out in high performance engines, other wise non synthetic will be just as good. Theres a lot of hype for synthetic for it's misleading also. Where I work we have to do monthly oil...
If don't mind a drive, coal creek in TN is nice. Atv and rockcrawlers. Also if never seen a windmill there are some there. And they are huge. Also called windrock