Those Half Barns in our country!

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 For today:

I have never tried to figure how many miles we have traveled. Traveling is NOT for everyone, and it wasn’t for Sherry, until we married. Since I am a Gypsie at heart, she has become one.  I have said before that once Camping in a StatePark in Western NC, she met some ‘smelly’ hikers that were headed to Maine, hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Sitting around a campfire I made my standard statement that I KNEW she always rejected, that was: Honey, seriously, let’s sell everything, buy a sailboat and sail around the world!

She smiled at me (she knows that melts me), “No, but we can hike from Georgia to Maine.”  WE almost accomplished that hiking nearly 2000 miles of it. YES, backpacking was solely her idea, and made a big difference in our lives.

BUT this is not about hiking, just travel. I thought about it as I was preparing supper and peeling potatoes.

On one trip around the USA we were in a new part of the Northwest. I kept commenting on the ½ barns. They looked like they were about 8 or 10 ft high.

Down south we are used to big RED barns and big, tall round silos. I learned in Missouri, from Kenneth Conrad, a farmer, that silos in Missouri are actually underground. They store the silage in a gully like formation then cover it with dirt. The cows feed from the open end all winter,

So about the ½ barns. As we drove, I noticed a huge cloud of dust out in a big field. As we came closer it hit me, THAT is a farmer harvesting potatoes, we are in Idaho by the way!  WE watched fascinated at this new to us site. I decided that must be the dirtiest job in the world.

Pictures from net

Then IT HIT ME, those are NOT half-barns, they are underground storage for potatoes until they are sold. The trucks drive down into one of the, dump, and up out the other end.

Very few times, but sometimes I answer my own questions. LOL

Ever have a truth dawn on YOU?

Nite Shipslog

PS 

Thanks for all the visits  Love you guys…  Thanks for reading, you are company to us as we travel. Now Idaho is not all dirt and potatoes, there is the Snake River. LOL