What is the most interesting/curious/unusual thing you've ever seen while out driving?
Saturday Rick and I were country cruising. We were on a dirt road we’d never been on before. Suddenly he hit the brakes and said, “That can’t be!”
I said, “What can’t be?”
He said, “That looked like a tomb stone in that wheat field! But it can’t be! They can’t just bury people in random places.”
So he backed up, and sure as hell. It was a little tombstone at the edge of this wheat field. It was sad. It was of a little girl, only 4 years old, who died at the beginning of the 20th century. You could see where the farmer just did his thing around the tombstone.
I started doing some research and found obits for her mom and dad. Also, there was a site that said she had of died on a “wagon trail,” and they had to bury her along the way, but I think that was a myth because her parents spent their whole lives in this area. Apparently she was the only daughter they had.
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Probably not unusual for people in paradise California, but I saw a whale while driving along the Pacific Coast Highway. Not long after that, I saw a mountain lion while driving near Big Sur. Again, probably a common occurrence for people on the west coast. But quite the novelty for me.
Other than on TV, I have never even heard anyone mention seeing a mountain lion in the wilderness, and I’ve lived in CA for over 15 years. I wonder if something was wrong with it for it to get that close to a road and civilization.
I’ve driven past a hooker beating up a pimp, in Mexico. My boyfriend was on the freeway when he noticed a tire rolling past him, he said his first thought was “hey that looks just like my tire”....it was one of his tires, someone didn’t tighten the bolts enough.
A dominatrix walking her three gimps on a leash down a major roadway in the middle of the afternoon.
Welcome to Florida.
How sad!! What a cool place you must live. Have you ever found arrowheads @Dutchess_III ? I saw a fedora in the street, I ran over it.
An old lady jogging while holding her fluffy cat.
A prostitute flashing her tits to oncoming traffic. One block down, two guys were exchanging what looked like a a large bundle of bills straight out of a movie.
Some dude playing the saxophone (with both hands) while “driving”.
A little baby in a stroller that I swear had an itty bitty cutaneous horn coming out of its forehead.
A guy wearing just chaps riding a bike in a standing up position.
I’m used to seeing guys in chaps in San Francisco. But seeing it up close at eye level is a whole ‘nother thing.
Not that unusual, but I did enjoy stopping one day to watch a male peacock rattling his feathers in full breeding display and being ignored by all of the hens.
Here in the rural south you’ll commonly see family plots of 1 -10 headstones randomly in fields and by roadsides.
Years ago I came across a ‘66 Plymouth that had just hit a full-grown black angus cow dead center in the grill. There was cow shit EVERYWHERE!!!
I had a black bear walk up to a few feet of the car. He was just crossing the road. I wanted to stop to see how close he would come.
You know, I have never really looked for arrows. I’m sure there are many around here, @trailsillustrated.
A long time ago I was riding home from a nice outdoor breakfast. It was a nice sunny day and I lazily gazed around while riding. Maybe my eyes were messing with me, but I was a naked man walking on the pavement! At that time I still had a biased mindset against sex, so I quickly looked away.
It was around midnight on Hwy3 here in B.C doing a haul and this thing the size of a large bear about five feet off the hwy turned and ran down the bank and into the bush,ON 2 legs bears don’t run down hill on 2 legs.
To this day I have no idea what the hell that was.
this was about 14 years ago.
@cheebdragon That would be really super cool if that is what it was.
But I guess I will never really know for sure.
The one thing I’ve begun to notice here is the growing frequency of naked people walking around this town. I’ve started keeping track, and I’m up to 26 “sightings” in the 18 months since the day the wife and I were motoring down Bryant street, and there on the sidewalk directly across the street from the Hall of Justice a woman without a stitch of clothing was casually retrieving a newspaper from one of those metal dispensing machines, apparently without a care in the world.
Yeah, you would think so. But then again, there is one day here when the sightings don’t count, and that is the day of the Folsom street fair. Google (folsom street fair photos) and you will understand. It’s a day when naked folks (almost always men, and usually in pairs) are strolling leisurely for several blocks around the neighborhood
Googled. OIC. Well, then I guess it’s not so odd in your area.
Driving on the highway during a snow storm while following the tail lights on a simi tanker truck a few miles ahead my eye caught a deer standing in a field of snow ( whiteout conditions), but in seconds it had bounded right in front of my car!
It was unbelievable how quick and how far it bounded from!
Fortunately I turned off my headlights as wild animals try to outrun the lights, and it veered back onto the shoulder away from the car.
There was nothing on the road except the truck ahead ( about a mile) and my car. There was no reason at all for that Elk or Deer to even near the car?
Like it had gone out of its way to contact?
Driving down a road at night with a thick cloud of fog just above the road. The air below the cloud is clear and the cloud hits your car just at the top of the windshield!
Fog can be so interesting!
@kritiper I had something like that as well a bunch of years ago driving through fog so thick and then it lifted just above the truck was kinda neat sorta like driving through a tunnel.
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