Remember how excited I was about a little road trip during our time in the midwest last week? Well, we did have a wonderful time visiting with family and gazing out over flat corn fields from the highway. But what I really wanted to do on my version of the road trip was get off the highway and take lots of photos of these incredible weather-worn barns off teeny tiny back country roads.
Know how long that lasted? Twenty minutes. Michael just wasn’t with me on the barn photo op journey.
So now I’ve come up with a new theory. The kind of road trip I want, I’m just going to have to go it alone. Next summer, it’s just going to be me, my camera, and a really reliable GPS. I think I’d only need a day in order to capture a whole lotta barns.
But seriously, aren’t these barns just too Little House on the Prairie? Or Friday Night Lights maybe. At the very least, a country music song or two!
And I could drive down long country roads for days. Without anyone to interrupt my photo-taking!
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Looking at your photos has instantly transported me back to Illinois. I for one am grateful for those 20 minutes you got to take these shots. I love Midwestern farms.
Thanks, Kristin! I really enjoyed your home region!
Hi Emily. I hope we’ll get a chance to talk at TBEX in October. When I’m not traveling in Ireland, I’m at home in the center of Iowa. You come my way and I’ll drive you across the Midwest to see as many old barns as you want. I can even take you to all those “Little House on the Prairie” sites…
I hope we’ll get to meet in October too, Jody! And I would love to take you up on an Iowa barn tour some day! It’s on my wish list!
Such bucolic scenes… I’d like to be there right now.
I have always wanted to drive around to take photos of Maine barns. I got a new camera for Christmas and haven’t had any time to play with it yet. If you want to make a day trip while you’re in the area, let me know!
Anita, I would absolutely love that! Would be great for me to practice with my camera too!
I LOVE old barns! We have quite a few where we are in Jersey and I always hope that one day we’ll have one of our own in our backyard:)
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I am always pressing my forehead to the car window on road trips and drooling over all of the beautiful old barns, too. My family takes an annual venture from Colorado to our cabins in Northern Minnesota and back every summer and the mid-west is just FILLED with gorgeous, old, weathered barns. I love them!
These photos are beautiful. And solo road trips are sometimes just as wonderful as those with company. Enjoy!