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There are so many ways to entertain yourself on a road trip.
There's the guess the license plate game where you try to spot all 50 states.
There's the game where you guess what the hazardous materials placard on the side of a truck means.
And then there's my the name the crop in that field game.
Is that corn?
No, it doesn't look like corn.
I'm curious.
This is the road trip game I was hoping to play with my friend Daniel Charles a few weeks back.
We were driving through Nebraska on our way to report a story.
Asparagus.
I don't know.
I wonder what sorghum looks like after you cut it.
Dan, you may remember, was NPR's longtime agriculture reporter, which is why I was very excited to play the guess the crop game with him.
No one better.
But he was on to a whole new game.
Oh, it's power line.
We're going under power line.
The spot the power line game.
115 kilovolt line marching across the landscape.