579 miles today. Mostly in Iowa, with a couple of hours of Nebraska toward the end. Our room in our hotel in North Platte, Nebraska is clean, modern and small. We're working our way west on Interstate 80 while, 198 miles north, Nadia and her boyfriend Max are working their way west as well -- on a substitute adventure for the covid-cancelled European one Nadia had planned for her gap year. They just got to the Badlands. We have more Nebraska and, possibly, Colorado ahead of us tomorrow.
From my albeit limited perspective, here are the top 5 things in Iowa, in descending order.
1. Trucks, mostly huge, hauling anything you can think of.
2. Windmills in cornfields.
3. Motorcyclists. (Note the sign on the wall. We made a short detour to the last bank robbed by Bonnie and Clyde. It's located a few miles from the interstate in the small town of Stuart.)
4. Aptly named waterways -- North Skunk River, South Skunk River, North Raccoon River, South Raccoon River and Beaver Crossing. As well as animals not lucky enough to have waterways named after them, aka road kill. Before I stopped counting I saw: 2 deer, 3 raccoons, 2 opossums, 2 skunks, 1 coyote (or similar, it was hard to tell), 1 owl, 14 squirrels and innumerable tires.
5. Humans wearing masks.
That last one is a joke. Despite being 4th in the nation in positivity rate, masks are not so popular in Iowa.
our trip so far
our hotel
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