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Re: Two Trivial Questions About Driving
Reply #25 –
We've always enjoyed stopping by Harris Ranch. I've even gone out of the way to take my DD there for a good meal after a week in Yosemite Valley. If memory serves me, there was a fire that year as well.

Spent the night there in a luxury suit once with my DW and DD on our way to the Valley. Took a dip in the pool too. Amazing swim. Pretty spectacular.

Dinner is always nice at Harris Ranch, although being the driver, I always eat lite. Now days, I think of the place every time I pull my car keys out of my pocket.

One day I'll enjoy a nice food coma there and enjoy another overnight stay.

Kent

2015 27' RB "MissB.Haven"
Re: Two Trivial Questions About Driving
Reply #26 –
When, as a kid, I would complain about livestock odors, my farmer father always reminded me, "That's the smell of money."  Of course that was long before the days of the corporate factory farms/Confined Animal Feeding Operations that moved into north Missouri--it reached the point that farmers who had raised livestock all their lives had to keep their windows closed & couldn't sit out in their yards on a summer evening.  When people complain about regulations, I always think about Mercer County where my dad grew up--they had no zoning/ordinances, so in came the factory farms (& jobs) in the 80s, the overflowing sewage lagoons that oozed into the streams, and out went the quality of life...

I don't eat near as much meat as I did in years past, when I knew my dad/my kids' dad/my father-in-law didn't shoot it full of antibiotics & it wandered peacefully in a pasture 'til it took a ride to the local locker plant & came back wrapped up neatly in white paper for the freezer.  Oh, well...I'm a dinosaur.   ;)

Lynne
Lynne
LDy Lulubelle, Green '05 31' TB
Lilly, the 4-Legged Alarm
Re: Two Trivial Questions About Driving
Reply #27 –
"I always think about Mercer County where my dad grew up--they had no zoning/ordinances, so in came the factory farms (& jobs) in the 80s, the overflowing sewage lagoons that oozed into the streams..."

Lynne, I'm guessing you're not talking about Mercer County, New Jersey, where I grew up--home to Princeton University and the state capital, Trenton. Not that there aren't still a few farms in Mercer County, NJ... but there certainly are zoning ordinances in profusion! ;-)
Andy Baird
2021 Ford Ranger towing 2019 Airstream 19CB
Previously: 1985 LD Twin/King "Gertie"; 2003 LD Midbath "Skylark"
 
Re: Two Trivial Questions About Driving
Reply #28 –
Andy--

Thx for expanding my geographical knowledge base, with your Mercer County, Princeton, & Trenton in such close proximity.  My dad's family landed in MO from Kentucky, but perhaps there were some other early settlers from your neck of the woods,

Mercer County, MO, is right on the Iowa line--in fact, my uncle's family briefly lived on the MO side of the town of Lineville, but my cousins' school was on the Iowa side.  The county seat of Mercer County, MO, is Princeton (Home of the Tigers)...& Trenton is the county seat directly south on US 65 in Grundy County...go another 24 miles south on 65 & you land in Chillicothe, the seat of Livingston County.  I don't know about NJ or other states, but in MO the county seats are all about 25-30 miles apart (I guess that was about a day's ride on horseback for the circuit judges back in "the olden days" when they were settling these parts).  I love history & learning how interconnected we all arer.   :)

Lynne
Lynne
LDy Lulubelle, Green '05 31' TB
Lilly, the 4-Legged Alarm