That's My World Tuesday: Road Trip to the NC coast

I always enjoy taking photographs on road trips when someone else is doing the driving.

Much of the way, from the triangle area which is in the central Piedmont of NC to the east where the coastal region of NC is, there are miles and miles of farmland.

On the way to the beach I spotted acres of sunflowers and I got the shot above from across the highway.

On the way home I was looking out for the sunflower farm and managed to get a few shots but they are a blur since the driver didn't slow down, not that I asked him to because I didn't.

There are always plenty of corn fields to photograph at various stages.

I wonder what it's like for the people who live on their farms which are on the side of a busy highway. It's so rural in some ways but there is a lot of highway traffic.

The last shot is the train track which runs through the middle of one of the main roads in Morehead City, NC. I've noticed that a lot in eastern NC. There will be train tracks in the middle of the main town road with the tracks laid between the opposing lanes of traffic. A little tidbit I learned about from the NCRR History site is that in 1926 residents in Goldsboro, NC who were unhappy with the location of the RR tracks on Centre street removed them in the middle of the night and they weren't replaced. I have this vision of angry town people with their sledge hammers, crowbars, and whatever tools it takes to lift off the tracks. I wouldn't have a clue how to do it even if I was angry about where the tracks were put.

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