Small world, then! Sounds like your experiences varied a lot from agricultural to industrial. Plenty of photos to boot, no doubt? I’ve got stacks, bought my first digital camera out there, could couldn’t do it without one really. It was John Beardmore who was my rep, an English chap working on behalf of OSU having done the harvest run himself. I did it after meeting him for the second time, on his stand at Smithfield. The first time was when he visited us at Lackham College.
I did that Alligator Alley too, with a friend the year before I went on the harvest run. Only, in a Nissan hire car, not the same buzz at all. It did rain in a torrential fashion though and the traffic drove with hazard lights on through the rain, they don’t have fog lamps. We did actually stop at one point as visibility was worse than any kind of fog I have seen here!