This ws our rig - bikes on the back, an inflatable boat on top (which turned out to be a lot of trouble; we only used it once).
There are places where the road can go a long way without a road, a house (or sometimes even another car) in sight.
Cotton bales in North Carolina
Oil wells in Oklahoma. A lot of them aren't running, some are.
A picnic table that looks like an oil well
A picnic table that looks like a teepee.
The strange water-bringing dragon...
Lots of irrigation
Wind Generators
Open range means there may be critter wandering around the road. Fortunately, you can see them a long way away. There is a view, by the way, that real Westerners never say 'cow', since it's often a steer. The singular of cattle is 'critter'.
Some places have seen better days.
Then it comes time to stop for the night:
We stayed a lot in National or State Parks
The truck/van was basically a bed with a lot of storage underneath and beside it. Cooking meals involved a lot of unpacking stuff, and repacking it afterwards.
...and a lot in commerecial campgrounds
...which was really fun when it was raining.
Every so often we got mail, and then there was a day of paying bills. Ugh.
There are a lot of people doing the trailer thing; note this is on blocks. Some people stay all summer in one place.
Then there are the toy people:
A Mercedes in a trailer??
The cyclists go a lot of miles per day, but don't have to carry their tents, food etc.
I suppose this guy may be a trucker?
A Dune Buggy - used to be a big thing (at one time, when VW bugs were the rage, a Bug was more likely to be stolen than a Chevy Corvette). The antenna is for visibility, not communication.
This campground owner had several really beautiful classic cars, and one classic trailer.
Keeping track of where you've been...
Wanted to ask about this, but didn't...
This caboose was part of the campground:
A large portion of the trailer people had dogs. So free dogs biscuits were a thing.
I don't suppose this was actually a very large pooper-scooper, or was it?
Some of the bathrooms were interesting.
The primitive campgrounds did have different kinds of outhouses. Most of them didn't bother apologizing. A number of them used some kind of waterless sewage digestion system - makes a lot of sense out where water is a rare and precious thing.
Space-age restroom
Gets to the essence of why people want to stuff things they've killed, I think...
Why not dress up things like propane tanks - do cows give honey?
We have 'Adopt - a highway' deals back East; here. they seem to do a lot more of it. Not always organizations. Mostly, they do a very good job of keeping the highways clear; wish we did better on the Right Coast.
Practically everywhere, even where it's flat, you can see a mountain range in the distance.
The caretaker at this National Park campground had his own solar array. It was enough to power his floodlights at night. He did have to move it around to face the sun, every hour or so.
Toward the Oregon coast, these signs were everywhere.
A number of places got up batches of fiberglass animals, and the locals painted them .
Seattle was full of pigs - we maust have seen 20 or so...
At the Tillamooks [Washington] Creamery
Washington, NC - a crab:
This was in St John, US Virgin Islands (another trip):
And, Two-Buck Chuck wine - actually, not at all bad.
Indian pottery - they said this was actually stuff they dug up. Surprisingly appropriate for modern coffee-drinking.
Wind GeneratorsOpen range means there may be critter wandering around the road. Fortunately, you can see them a long way away. There is a view, by the way, that real Westerners never say 'cow', since it's often a steer. The singular of cattle is 'critter'.
Some places have seen better days.
Then it comes time to stop for the night:
We stayed a lot in National or State ParksThe truck/van was basically a bed with a lot of storage underneath and beside it. Cooking meals involved a lot of unpacking stuff, and repacking it afterwards.
...and a lot in commerecial campgrounds
...which was really fun when it was raining.Every so often we got mail, and then there was a day of paying bills. Ugh.
There are a lot of people doing the trailer thing; note this is on blocks. Some people stay all summer in one place.
Then there are the toy people:
A Mercedes in a trailer??The cyclists go a lot of miles per day, but don't have to carry their tents, food etc.
I suppose this guy may be a trucker?
A Dune Buggy - used to be a big thing (at one time, when VW bugs were the rage, a Bug was more likely to be stolen than a Chevy Corvette). The antenna is for visibility, not communication.
This campground owner had several really beautiful classic cars, and one classic trailer.
Keeping track of where you've been...
Wanted to ask about this, but didn't...
This caboose was part of the campground:
A large portion of the trailer people had dogs. So free dogs biscuits were a thing.
I don't suppose this was actually a very large pooper-scooper, or was it?
Some of the bathrooms were interesting.
The primitive campgrounds did have different kinds of outhouses. Most of them didn't bother apologizing. A number of them used some kind of waterless sewage digestion system - makes a lot of sense out where water is a rare and precious thing.
Space-age restroom
Gets to the essence of why people want to stuff things they've killed, I think...
Why not dress up things like propane tanks - do cows give honey?We have 'Adopt - a highway' deals back East; here. they seem to do a lot more of it. Not always organizations. Mostly, they do a very good job of keeping the highways clear; wish we did better on the Right Coast.
Practically everywhere, even where it's flat, you can see a mountain range in the distance.
The caretaker at this National Park campground had his own solar array. It was enough to power his floodlights at night. He did have to move it around to face the sun, every hour or so.
Toward the Oregon coast, these signs were everywhere.
A number of places got up batches of fiberglass animals, and the locals painted them .
Seattle was full of pigs - we maust have seen 20 or so...
At the Tillamooks [Washington] Creamery
Washington, NC - a crab:
This was in St John, US Virgin Islands (another trip):
And, Two-Buck Chuck wine - actually, not at all bad.
Indian pottery - they said this was actually stuff they dug up. Surprisingly appropriate for modern coffee-drinking.
