The long and winding (well, truthfully straight) road

Over the years on cross-country trips, I’ve ventured off the highways to see both the beautiful and hokey: Covered Bridges of Madison County, Devils Tower, Field of Dreams, Corn Palace, Jackalope, etc…

BUT, there are always new things to be seen.  This recent highway traveling brought the following new sights:

A tree in the middle of the road: A surveyor was mapping the county lines, and he stuck his cottonwood walking stick in the ground here (on the county line), and from that the tree grew. (or so the story goes).  To find this one took a few adventurous turns on gravel roads... off of I-80.

Tree growing from a rock: Eastern Wyoming right in the median of East and West bound I-80.

Fossil Butte National Monument.  These are fossilized feathers!! Just west of Kemmerer, WY (also where the first J.C. Penny store opened in 1902). Just north off I-80 in western Wyoming.

Bonneville Salt Flats, a rest area provided the perfect location to walk out and fill my shoes with... salt. Western Utah along I-80.

Last but not least, a roadside fruit stand in California en route to Yosemite along Hwy 140.  Delicious!

Perhaps on my next journey I'll make it to the Spam museum in MN, or the Danish Windmill in Iowa.