Today, we hit a milestone (no pun intended) having traveled 8000 miles. And we have more to go.
Yesterday we traveled across about 2/3rds of Iowa. I have to say, Iowa was not what I expected. It had rolling hills, green fields and trees. We hardly saw a run down house. It was really quite beautiful. I must say though, I am in awe of how much farmland there is in this country and Iowa continued to confirm that. There are also a LOT of windmills in Central Iowa. I have posted a picture but it really doesn’t show the scope of how far they stretched across the landscape and the number of miles these wind farms extended.
The sad part of Iowa was the devastation from tornadoes. We were en route to go through the town of Greenfield when we came to a blockade and the State Trooper told us they weren’t allowing anyone to go through there. It had been completely obliterated a couple of days earlier and 4 people had died. When we checked pictures on line later it was hard to imagine what that must have been like. It was not an exaggeration to say the town had been completely wiped out. As we went our alternative route we came across several windmills that had also been destroyed. Either blades broken off or the tower broken in half. So glad we have managed to avoid these.
Today, we visited the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, IA. If you have never seen this movie or it’s been a while, I strongly recommend you watch it. We watched it a couple of nights ago in preparation for our visit and it is just such a great, feel-good movie. It’s hard to believe that 35 years after this movie came out people from all over the US and the world come to visit. Unfortunately, the corn was just coming up but it was a fun experience just the same. As we were leaving, they were hosting a little league game so the field does get used.
Tonight we are in Beaver Dam. Wisconsin which is about 1/2 way across the state. We plan on going up and around Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. More adventures to come.
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