A trash can I found on the side of the highway
I really appreciated this trash can I found just off an exit on Interstate 40. I believe I took this picture in Arizona.
I appreciate the handwritten lettering and the earnest call to action. USE ME! It is a very human trash can.
It was in a gravel area just off the side of the highway where truckers pull over for rest. We pulled up next to a massive idling truck to refill our water bottles and switch drivers.
I took some other pictures of the roadside while we were moving. I think the funniest thing I saw was this series of incredibly insistent advertisements for a "deer farm" where you can feed baby deer:
COME FEED THE DEER
GRAND CANYON DEER FARM
GRAND CANYON DEER FARM
COME FEED THE DEER
EXIT NOW
EXIT NOW!!!! How alarming! I think the blown-out, glassy-eyed baby deer photo they used is kind of cute but also kind of scary. It makes me wonder if I'd get to the deer farm and then just get whacked on the back of the head and fed to the deer myself. They are, after all, opportunistic carnivores!
Anyway! Road tripping!! It's fun!! You might see an interesting sign, or a trash can!
I have seen a lot of beautiful vistas in this drive across Arizona to New Mexico. Lots of weird mountains and forests and impossibly flat valley floors surrounded by the kind of just-a-big-pile-of-rock hills you see around here. There was also a cool moment when we started going downhill toward Needles, California and I suddenly got a ton of new mesh radio nodes all popping up at once on my mesh radio. But there is something about vistas-as-seen-from-car which is kind of unphotographable. It might be the sense of momentum and parallax? I gave up trying to photograph these moments and focused mainly on the funny shit instead. This is why you gotta road trip, I guess: to get the heady sense of parallax...