We were lucky enough to get a hotel reservation in Iowa. There are so many Republican Presidential hopeful's here, we were concerned that we would not be able to a hotel space here :-). Well, maybe that's not quite true, but there do seem to be a lot of politicos wandering around this state.
Left Columbus, OH this morning and headed west. Finished up Ohio, thru Indiana and Illinois before stopping half-way across Iowa. In a way, the trip was a little bit of nostalgia because I went to school back in 1957 in Indianapolis at Fort Benjamin Harrison and my father worked for a while in Muncie, IN while I was in high school. Illinois brought back a few memories because that's where we retired from the USAF back in 1978 - we didn't go down to Bellevue because it was too far south, but we waved as we went by! We stopped at a rest stop in Grinnell, IA and were reminded that my sister, Mary Ann, had gone to a summer school there while she was in college.
Countryside was beautiful with lots of farmland - you can tell that this is the breadbasket of the United States. Neat seeing the forested land as we crossed into Indiana - have to keep those memories for when we get back to tree-less Nevada. I have often said that in order to be an artist in Nevada, you have to appreciate the subtleties of brown. Around here, you have to appreciate the green shades!
Nora Roberts made our trip go by quickly and we made good time. Tomorrow it's on to Wyoming - have to see how far we get through that state before we have to stop for the night.
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