Miles Driven: 386.
Mean Temperature: 86 f.
One detour because of a bridge still being out, and one road reduced to one lane from post flooding damage.
There were some interesting vistas, sadly blurred by a high overcast or I would have taken pictures.
To make up for it here is the the view outside my hotel room.
Umm... well... unless you have an personal interest in farm equipment it probably didn't excite you much.
I expected to have trouble sleeping last night, as a rowdy group of BNSF trainmen took the room next to me, but they had a 4:30am callout so actually quieted down about 9pm.
The food at the Cottonwood was strange mix of excellent and mediocre. The burger was soggy and uninspiring, but the onion rings were perfect and the ranch sauce amazing (and I don't like ranch.) The burger's shortcoming were solved by dipping it in the ranch.
Day Two:
Miles Driven: ~5.
Mean Temperature: 91 f.
Equipment installs went pretty smooth, enough that I was done by 4:00 and back in the A/C hotel room by 4:30.
Dinner tonight was Chicken Fried Steak. Ummm... yeah...
Steak was burned, as in I can taste carbon; smothered in from-the-package gravy, and onion rings were soggy.
On the plus side, I got a mini-loaf of bread that looks good and a fresh salad with the amazing ranch. Weird. I hate ranch... but I want to smear this on everything...
Tomorrow I expect to be miserable, with expected highs of 94, 2.5 hours of driving to the site, ~5 hours of work and then 2.5 of driving to the next site. Wheee...
At $200,000 a combine, its almost looking like the Vegas strip. With farming being the biggest gamble of all.
ReplyDeleteYe gods. I had no idea they were so expensive. That hurts my brain.
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