Ok so when I mapped our trip from San Diego to Sacramento, no one told me that the route yahoo maps would pick would be some of the most boring roads ever, that I would regret not making us stick to learning Spanish, and that we would find out something really cool... where 90% of our produce comes from. Most of us take for granted that the produce we find in the grocery store start somewhere like the back of this truck. These are tomatoes, fresh from the vine and beautiful - I bet I passed 20 tomato trucks, almond fields, pistachio fields, grape arbors, strawberry patches, and so much more. I was talking to a friend after getting home from our trip and she said that when she lived in CA she never thought about just how fresh her produce was until she had to move to Michigan... then she went to the grocery and saw the same CA produce but of course it was days older! It really does taste better fresh picked so if you are ever visiting CA, try to hit some farmer's markets, the freshness of the produce is amazing. Of course when I went to the grocery tonight I bought some wonderful CA produce... tastes different though... it's easily 3 plus days old!
Oh and while I didn't get a picture of it, I-5 is also the home of the stinkiest portion of land I have ever seen... a HUGE, I mean HUGE cattle farm... for miles before we saw it we could smell it... it was so gross in the summer heat... then I went over a hill and there it was, cows for miles and miles. Thank you Yahoo Maps.
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Now you're really bringing back memories...I drove between L.A. and Sacramento far too many times. It is a very efficient (for cars) but utterly boring drive. But it is fun to try to figure out what the crops are, and what's in the trucks. That cattle yard is indeed completely stinky...it's amazing how strong it is even inside a car going 75 mph! I do love the portion toward the middle/end of the drive with the beautiful rolling hills to the west.
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