seen off the beaten path

[vanbrat]

The last road trip we went across the central valley in Calif. And I really hate going down I-5. I know it's the fastest way to get from point A to point B but it is so booooooring. We turned off and drove a bunch of farm roads to Lake Tahoe. I have a new love of really old tractors; yea weird I know. It was so much more fun than that drive down I-5. So now I want my own ol' tractor but probably it'll never happen and that's most likely a good thing. Hubby was laughing at me when I would get excited as we passed a farm with 2-3 old tractors as yard art in some farmyard. So what weird stuff do you look for? Hubby gets giddy about mini golf stuff and sports cars.

 

[WanderingRose]

We always loved to drive the backroads and go thru old small towns, and I still do.

Most of them are just the old storefronts these days, without a lot of active commerce, but the old architecture, town squares with bandstands, etc.. are where this country came from.

 

[bullfrog !]

I still enjoy dirt roads with lots of cactus and wildlife. I was driving ariund my neighborhood dirt roads yesterday and found a row of probably 20 old rusted tractors along a fence line. Lol!!! Here in the desert where property was once cheap you find all sorts of collections one place has over 100 duce and a half military trucks sitting side by side and bumper to bumper, it would take hours to crawl to the middle!