FL I-95 is to FL Hwy 27 as CA I-5 is to _________________.
Answer: CA Hwy 99
Today we head south on FL Hwy 27, the state’s agricultural artery, and parts of it look a lot like California’s Hwy 99.
Large agricultural fields line the road, planted with corn and various unrecognizable crops.
A canal is on our right.
Many dingy small towns with mono-housing. Built for the canal workers? Now used by farm workers? Do they house workers for the several prisons that dot the landscape, or perhaps is this where families of prisoners live? I ask Tom (a Floridian) if the farm workers come from Mexico or are they Cuban and he says no, they are Central American and South American. The Cubans work in business. I don’t catch what the Mexicans do.
As we get closer to Florida City we pass by nursery after nursery, at least half growing palms of various types. It looks like many more palms than they could possibly market, but the Florida DOT favors palms in many of their freeway and highway landscaping projects, as do housing developments.
Another difference between 99 and 27: our home road shoulders are dirt and dusty; Florida’s are usually grass. We have actually seen the DOT sodding the shoulders in areas where they have just completed shoulder work. They must have to mow it but there is enough rain the grass survives on its own and likely protects the shoulders from erosion.
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