Tuesday,
6/10/2014
Winterset,
IW
188
miles put us in Winterset by 11:15 AM.
Where we grabbed a quick lunch at Hardee’s and then a few blocks more
and we were at John Wayne’s birthplace.
Now John Wayne doesn’t mean much to Zoey or Todd but he does to Don and
I must admit I like his movies too.
However, Todd was paying attention to the guide and said he had a good
time. Traveling on I was impressed with
the vastness of the fields all around us.
Corn and more corn as far as the eye can see. I wouldn’t call it mountains but rolling
hills are everywhere with what looks like fuzzy snakes twisting and curving
down the hillside joining here and there.
A closer look shows these to be drainage ditches throughout the
fields. And windmills dot the hills;
some locations have lots of windmills that obviously supply electricity to a
town or region and other places we see one or two servicing the local
farm. And the distance between farms –
wow you have to drive several miles down dirt roads to reach your
neighbor. Tomorrow we will be visiting
the Lincoln Children’s Museum where everything is geared to kids and
hands-on. How cool will that be! We wanted to get within an hour of the museum
so we wouldn’t have too much riding to do and we have stopped for the night in Council
Bluffs at a really great hotel. Room is
nice, clean and spacious but the cool part is they have an indoor pool and make
homemade chocolate chip cookies every night at 5:30. Kids are impressed. Hope Zoey didn’t get any water in her ears –
just praying daily that we don’t have to deal with an ear infection.
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