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The Road Less Travelled


RobertKB

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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).

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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

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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. ?

 

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Is that color named after some flavor of ice cream?

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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. 
 

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Or this. 
 

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5 hours ago, RobertKB said:


Thanks for the compliment! Wasn’t always like that! Six year project. ?

 

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I remember seeing this and other pics.  Still looks better than my car here!?

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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...

 

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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.

 

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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. 

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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?

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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...

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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.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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. 

 

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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.       

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