Road Tripping: Riverside, Nevada

Sometimes you take a detour in life and you're rewarded with random cows. This little experience in our timeline of life, happened to occur because we were trying to see the goats from Glendale again. Antho misjudged where we'd encountered them, pulling off the freeway on the exit for Riverside. The goats, as it were, are located in Glendale, not Riverside. That being what it was, we cruised along the two lane road in the hope that it would eventually route us towards Glendale, or at least the freeway. What we found instead was that it grew more rural and rapidly ended in the driveway to a beautiful farm with a very large front gate. Along the way, we encountered a couple of cows out for a stroll, which was extremely entertaining for us as a couple of city kids from Vegas. These particular bovines were ambling along the road, so we tried to go slowly and cautiously so as not to spook them or cause them to run in front of the vehicle out of startlement. We love cows, after all, and certainly wouldn't want to harm someone's pets. I know there's probably some vegans out there taking deep breaths preparing for an epic argument, and I assure you guys, I get it. I do. But I'm still going to eat the occasional hamburger. I know there may be a degree of cognitive dissonance that occurs when you dwell on it, but it is what it is. Lab grown meat is showing promising advances day after day, so maybe in the not-too-distant future soylent beef will be our burgers. 

Given the spontaneous cow encounter, we weren't too upset about losing some time to this detour. Once we reached the end of the line, quite literally, we turned around as best we could in the narrow lane and made our way back to the freeway. It was a nice side trip and we saw some beautiful fields full of lush crops that I certainly wouldn't have expected to find in this climate, but it always gives me hope to see people overcoming the odds and thriving. I know we have several farmers markets in Vegas and the farmers have to grow their produce somewhere, but I typically assume the majority of it is coming in from the cooler hills of California. Glad to see some places thriving in Nevada! We saw several other farms during our drive, too, which again was quite pleasing for me. There were plenty of photos taken along the way, so those lie ahead. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And we're off again~

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XOXO,

NAU