The other thing that Connecticut is famous for (besides Foxwoods) is growing the shade tobacco leaf that most cigars are wrapped with. Most of those tobacco fields are right near my house, so we stopped by some to take some pictures.
These here are the tobacco fields, the big barn is where they hang the tobacco leaf to dry at the end of the season - there are a few barns next to every field.
True to the name, at some point in the season they drape huge tents over the fields to keep the leaves in the shade.
Next up was the sycamore tree nearby my house which is the largest tree in Connecticut. Certainly not the largest in the country, but the largest in the state.
And last but certainly not least, since this is a motorcycle trip for the piggy, I thought I'd take him on some of the hilly wooded back roads that are so prevalant here in the Northwest corner of the state. This is what I'm going to miss most when I move to Florida, for sure:
Weather permitting, tomorrow I hand off to Rhode Island. There are a few more places I'd like to take the pig before the handoff, but not many. This is not a very happening state.
