Is This Pumpkin Patch Sincere Enough?

The train photo we took way back on the 4th of July weekend near Waycross, GA was good enough for submission in the Motoring Challenge. But. Back in 2009 the MMC made a trip to the SC Railroad Museum where we had a ride on a coal-fired steam engine and that has been in the back of our mind for a return trip there to get an even better train photo.

When it came to the Pumpkin Patch destination, we wanted a literal one, not just a display of many large orange-colored cultivars of squash in front of a church or retail establishment, so I searched for one nearby. We found just one in South Carolina, a little east of Newberry, a mere 65 miles away, which is nearby when in a Miata on a beautiful fall Saturday. Looking at the map, the train museum was only another 30 or so miles east, and they were doing, coincidentally enough, Pumpkin Patch Rides.

Not exactly what we hoped for, but having made the special trip, we’ll use it. The train photo wasn’t worth anything because we already had counted the original one. The pumpkin patch was worth one point, today’s other two points came from a Thrift Shop we stumbled on between Newberry and Prosperity. We still have a few city photos to take and figured we get the M on the way home as we’d pass right through Monetta. It wasn’t until we got home and looked at the photos of me sitting on the steps of the Post Office that we realized Donna’s finger was intruding on the frame. Guess we’ll get that M another day.