Total Mileage As of the end of the day 10/11/2006 (yes we are a few days behind on the blog) it was 7,000.1. We will have to work a little harder to get miles hiked, biked and cruised!! Perhaps we will include in a later blog....
Grand Coulkee Dam Trivia question It can generate up to 6.5 million kilowatts of power and has 12 million yds. of concrete. Sure hate to have to mix that by hand. We're back. Had a great trip and beautiful country. Marv Thanks Troy for filling in .
Trivia Question for You How many miles have you traveled to date?
It's finally turning cooler here in Kansas, so I think our winter is just around the corner.
the purple berries look like the wild grapes I have around here.
trees are weeds that will grow in any place they find moisture and sunlight and any sort of protection from trampling. Kansas folk revered trees when this was a treeless trackless plain, but I can assure you today cedar trees are a genuine weed, t rees out there should be very similiar.
Washington State produces a good deal of barley and oats aswell as wheat. The straw is baled to get it out of the way of tillage and planting the next crop. Baled straw has value to cattle feed lots to add bulk to rations sometimes. Also there is an effort to mix straw with resins and produce a building product similiar to plywood.
Straw is also used for bedding chickens, and I think in some paper manufacturing processes.
one can frequently identify crops from a distance by their color.
The berries in the picture to the right are wild blueberry. As to the bails of straw they are used for bedding for theranimals or covered with plastic then injected with nitrogin which greatly increases the protien in it and it is used as feed. About the only way to tell what kind of grain was grown is to see the head of the stalk before it is harvested. There it most likely is barley or summer wheat or possibly rye. If the straw is darker than the wheat straw here in Kansas then it is barley or rye.
The small purple berries look like wild grapes to me. Small red berries are typical of Sumac here. Don't know if it grows out there or not.
wheat straw is baled to get it off the field and not interfere with tillage and planting the next crop, it has value to nearby feedlots in cattle rations, depending on ingredients available straw may be added to a ration to add bulk. May also be used for bedding on other animal situations. Also there is an effort to grind up wheat straw, mix with resin glues and produce a plywood like construction material.
trees along the edge of the pavement, trees are weeds that will grow any where they can find moisture , light and space.
Peach Dove "The actual border area is surrounded by a “Peace Park,” complete with peace arch, peach dove, plenty of flowers, minutely manicured grass and of course the border marker!"
Mmmm! Peach Dove is my favorite! Especially with fresh Dove, not the canned kind!
I got lucky! Being the only driving car I could see anywhere coming or going around Hoover Dam on night, I stopped to take a picture of the spiffy art deco statues they have on the east side...right in front of two police vehicles. :-D
They got on the bullhorn and informed me that I was, in fact, in the middle of a highway and to keep it moving. :-P My picture didn't come out either with too little time for a proper exposure. Dam It! :-)
Time to leave Reminds me when we moved from Dallas to Wichita. It took longer to finish packing, load the truck, and then fix some mechanical problems, it was 1:00 A.M., but we left anyway! Drove about an hour down the road and checked into a motel!
Sockeye Since dad isn't around to answer....a sockeye is what Maria should do to Carl when he is checking out the pretty girls....or is a species of salmon.
NOT FAIR!!!!!!! I thought that contraption was located in the Tetons area and tried to figure what would be there of that nature. But would have guessed no better over in Idaho either.
Idaho is the home of JR Simplot, if you have eaten Or-Ida potatoes
Tater-tots- or potatoe chips they are a product of his. Some where up there is a large feedlot where they feed the discarded potatoe peelings to the cattle, thus fat cattle are a by product of potatoe production for them.
Tourist Trap It appears to be a trap for all the particles left behind by the tourists, hikers and bikers. Once the particles are trapped inside the machine joins them and shoots out a brown blob.
Welcome to our Travel Log... We, Carl and Maria are starting an adventure - The Odyssey - where we quit our jobs, travel around the USA and then move to Australia! Join us on our adventure...
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Yes it is, the very northwest point of the lower 48, any guess on the most south west point?