To the Armenian Border
Today we drove from Telavi, Georgia to Yerevan, Armenia. The trip took us twelve hours. Of course, we made plenty of stops along the way. The drive in Georgia was about 4.5 hours to get to the border and it was all through agricultural lands. This will mostly be an agriculture post.
Vineyards represented most of crops that we saw. I don't know the percentage, but vineyards seemed to be everywhere I looked. I think that this area of Georgia is probably the largest grape-growing region.
You can first see a vineyard. Next, you can see a tractor working in a vineyard. Most of the tractors that we saw in Georgia were about this size. I don't think that I ever saw any tractors that were much bigger than this one, even working large fields.
The next photo is a fast-moving bus photo, but I want to point something out. You can see a variety of orchard trees and vineyards. But you also see lots of just regular trees growing amongst the orchards and vineyards. That was normal for Georgia. Their agriculture lands do not look like our agricultural lands. They are quite a bit wilder and less organized than ours.
Like in Azerbaijan, farm animals were common along roadsides in Georgia. I rarely saw fences along the fields to keep the animals off the roads. Plus, animals were moved from place to place and roads needed to be crossed to do that. Drivers were always cautious around the animals.
Driving through agricultural lands, I think I've seen just about everything being sold along the road over my many trips. I've seen lots of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and related products. But I had never seen live chickens being sold along the road, but we did on this drive, and lots of them.
On a farm in the US, farmers have their own fuel tanks. Fuel gets delivered to the farm and then the farmer fuels his equipment. In Georgia, on many occasions, I saw tractors just pull into a regular gas station and gas up. I was watching the guy below work a field. Then, he pulled out of the field and drove along the road and right into the same gas station that we were at. I just found that interesting.
And that's it for Georgia. We are now arriving at the border with Armenia.