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| I returned to La.14 and turned west. I was seeing familiar landmarks and knew this portion of my trip was soon over. Below you see a farmhouse not taken the last time because the occupants were in the front yard and I didn't want them to think me a target. It is the same German design so common around here. The upstairs porch was missing. Must have been the economy model or he put the porch on the back. |
| Rig 3. I hope the locals get lots of royalty money from that oil/gas rig. Life on the plains seems rough to this city boy. The wind blows all the time and farming is tough by definition. I saw a lot of deserted "home places". I don't know if big corporation farming is taking over here or not. Good luck to the family farms. |
| I was riding north now on La. 99 toward I-10. Of course I would pass underneath it and continue north, stll in rice country. I turned right on some 300 nubered road and spied this farmers collection. Great old stuff, still old. There was more but I'm just about out of room with geocities. Just collect it and do nothing. I like that. You don't owe it anything. I didn't have the GPS tracking on and I'll never find it again. Hope you do. It was priceless. He even had an old firetruck. |
| I was working myself back eastward when I came to Bristol, after leaving Robert's Cove. I saw the old building which deserved a screaching halt. Look at those coke signs. They were perfect. I'm sure you are looking at what was once the center of society around here. |
| Across the street I saw this red building. After much examination, I determined it to be a machine shop or water pumping station for the surrounding fields. Let's go with pump. Also, a nice barn in the background. |
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