Seen along 200 miles of driving Florida’s Turnpike:
Accident, minor: 1
Accident, major, with all emergency personnel on site: 1
Construction cranes: 7
Cormorants, perching: 3
Disabled vehicles: 5
Rain Showers: 4
Rain Showers, torrential: 2
Reckless drivers: 3
Sandhill cranes: 1
State Troopers: 2
Swallow-tailed Kite, airborne: 1
Tailgaters: 7
Turkey: 1
Walls, persistent: throughout Orlando
From Adventurous Barbara:
The walls are noise walls built and maintained by the FDOT to give the occupants along the highway a quieter lifestyle. The clouds do look pretty in that photo BTW!
From Sandra Friend:
Yeah, I know why they build them but think it’s a rip-off to taxpayers, since in this case the road pre-dated the houses along it. Also, it makes the drive unfriendly to drivers since they can’t see the community. I do hate walls!