RobertKB Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 (edited) Yesterday I posted about taking my ‘48 Dodge for a run that included some gravel. Today I had the ‘51 Dodge D39 business coupe out for a run. I sometimes like driving down the old service roads that run beside small canals or former canals which is what this partially overgrown road runs beside. I like to park the car and just enjoy the day and a beverage. Today I took the road less travelled and that has made all the difference. (Acknowledgement to Robert Frost). Edited May 13, 2021 by RobertKB 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worden18 Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Gosh that car is beautiful. Wish mine looked that good!? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booger Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Primo my grandfather was a traveling salesman selling feed supplements to the dairy industry. I would spend summer days cruising with him from farm to farm in his old cruisers along the 2 lane highways he would pick wild asparagus along the side of the road. Damn Just about time to hunt the eleusive moreal mushrooms. this picture reminds me of that. songbirds on the catails. thanks for sharing 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertKB Posted May 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Worden18 said: Gosh that car is beautiful. Wish mine looked that good!? Thanks for the compliment! Wasn’t always like that! Six year project. ? Edited May 13, 2021 by RobertKB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg g Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Drive the blue roads! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 54 minutes ago, RobertKB said: Thanks for the compliment! Wasn’t always like that! Six year project. ? I would rather drive that then most new cars today. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knuckleharley Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 Is that color named after some flavor of ice cream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertKB Posted May 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) No, it’s not pistachio ice cream. Colour in the picture shows lighter than it actually is. It’s called shallot green. This is closer to actual colour. Cell phones and computers are notoriously unreliable when showing colour. Or this. Edited May 14, 2021 by RobertKB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan G Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 Those cars were really built for roads like that! Great car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booger Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 3 hours ago, greg g said: Drive the blue roads! Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon wonderful book,traveloge 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worden18 Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 4 hours ago, Sniper said: I would rather drive that then any new cars today. Fixed it for ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worden18 Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 5 hours ago, RobertKB said: Thanks for the compliment! Wasn’t always like that! Six year project. ? I remember seeing this and other pics. Still looks better than my car here!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamfordsgarage Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 Nice photo and road, Robert, and great job on the '51. Lady Michelle and I took some roads less travelled today in the D25. Visited a friend 60 miles north of Edmonton and enjoyed a picnic in the Bridge Lake Natural Area on the way home... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Fleiter Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 is that a kind of totem pole on Your dash?? Beautiful pictures in this thread! Thanks to all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 8 hours ago, Worden18 said: Fixed it for ya I dunno, I think I'd enjoy driving a hellcat all the while thinking how I could stuff it into my 51 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamfordsgarage Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 12 hours ago, Go Fleiter said: is that a kind of totem pole on Your dash?? Hi Fleiter — that is an INUKSHUK. These are man-made stone landmarks or cairns, historically used by some northern indigenous peoples for way-finding, cache markers and so on. They are found above the Arctic Circle in Canada, Alaska and Greenland. More HERE. We acquired this souvenir Inukshuk in Canada's Yukon Territory, on our way to another road less travelled — the winter ice road to Tuktoyaktuk, furthest north one can drive in mainland Canada. Photo below is the old heap at the end of that road, a picnic spot on the shore of the Beaufort Sea. Second photo are two Tuk natives: the artist on the left who carved this Inukshuk for Lady Michelle, and his friend and ours (through an exchange program) Sam. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotRodTractor Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 The road less travelled for some is the road I travel all the time! LOL My farm is on one of the last gravel roads in my area of the state of Ohio. The township I live in has 3 roads left that are gravel, there are no other public gravel roads in the county or surrounding counties left. My road is getting chip and sealed this summer and next summer the last of gravel roads in this area will be no more. I bet I would need to travel 100 miles in any direction to be on one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamfordsgarage Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 49 minutes ago, HotRodTractor said: My farm is on one of the last gravel roads in my area of the state of Ohio ... next summer the last of gravel roads in this area will be no more. How about a picture or two? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worden18 Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 2 hours ago, HotRodTractor said: The road less travelled for some is the road I travel all the time! LOL My farm is on one of the last gravel roads in my area of the state of Ohio. The township I live in has 3 roads left that are gravel, there are no other public gravel roads in the county or surrounding counties left. My road is getting chip and sealed this summer and next summer the last of gravel roads in this area will be no more. I bet I would need to travel 100 miles in any direction to be on one. Wow, that's strange. Around here, one quick turnoff from almost anywhere and you're on gravel for miles... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 If only we had gravel, too many caliche roads. Dusty when dry, slippery when wet. But cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 that is funny....this time last month I returned form a trip to my stomping grounds as a child....I walked the creek and sandbars where we would stand and fish and or find arrowheads and the such. This trip I selected two bags of rocks from the creek and came home and built my own cairn of a fashion beside the bird bath on the patio as a tribute to my childhood and Joe's Creek. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los_Control Posted May 15, 2021 Report Share Posted May 15, 2021 3 hours ago, bamfordsgarage said: Photo below is the old heap at the end of that road, a picnic spot on the shore of the Beaufort Sea Simply amazing & what a great trip. I can tell stories of my youth, would not match yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotRodTractor Posted May 17, 2021 Report Share Posted May 17, 2021 Here is a few random photos taken around the farm over the last decade or so that I had on my social media. Unfortunately its not very photogenic right now - all the trees have been removed from along the road because the ash borer killed nearly all of them. All the ditches are freshly planted last fall from major rework in prep for chip and seal this year. We heavily use cover crops in the farming rotation over the winter - but we spray them just before planting corn in them, and the two big fields along the road just got planted last Friday. I was wanting to get the car or an antique tractor out and get some photos in front of them with all the red clover and canola blooming.... but sadly timing just didn't work out for that this year. The field between the house and the pond, as well as to the left of the house in the first picture is wheat this year, so its still a beautiful green, so there is still some opportunity once this weeks storms roll through to get some new 2021 pictures assuming they haven't started on the road construction yet.... I don't know their official start date, but I do know that its getting close. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merle Coggins Posted May 17, 2021 Report Share Posted May 17, 2021 Love the smell of a freshly mowed hay field. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpollo Posted May 17, 2021 Report Share Posted May 17, 2021 I am about to build an Inukshuk of sorts using empty Chrysler engine blocks and heads as building " blocks" Just so the people will know I was here. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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