<p>The journey from Edenton NC to Suffold, VA and the ride today from Suffold to Richmond were more less uneventful except for a north to northeast wind both days and a few sprinkles of rain today. So I am in the Snow White Motel in Chesterfield VA which is about 8 miles south of downtown Richmond VA. Tomorrow I hope to make it to Fredericksburg VA where I will pick up a care package of the rest of the .maps I will need to complete the rest of the USA circumnavigation.
Here are few observations that I have been pondering. They are not eternal truths, just things that seem to be different to what I am used to in California. I do have admit that the experience of us Californians, especially along the coast is different that a lot of citizens in the rest of the country. ; friends in Arizona refer to California as the land of fruits and nuts.
With that said, here are the observations:
Loging Trucks
Ever since eastern Texas there has been a constant flow of loging trucks. They haul a load of long but fairly skinny pine logs. If any of you followed Gary's blog, you would have learned that through out the south east, from eastern Texas to here in central east Virginia, pine trees are not just forest but a crop. They are harvested, turned into paper at paper mills,
Replanted, a lot of times in rows, and in a out 20 years, reharvested (they grow fast down here). They grow tall and thin.
I seem to notice a lot of road names in the country that are named with a person's name. Roads are named with familiar names all over but these road names have first names and sometimes middle initials.
Also I have noticed many small cemeteries that are obviously family cemeteries because most of the head stones have the same last names. I mean sometimes several little cemeteries in each community.
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