monday. 7:45 a.m. central time.

we will leave iowa city in the next 20 minutes.  then it is 11 hours to denver. first stop? gas. second stop? des moines to find katie!

Sunday, Part 3: Iowa

We have made it to Iowa! Cross the Mississippi and hello to the great state of Iowa. We passed the largest truck stop in THE WORLD and made it to Iowa City to spend some awesome time with Allison and Nate. A tour of Iowa City included the bars, the Pentecost (some here call it the Penta-Crest) otherwise known as a collection of buildings in a random formation on campus, the Ped Mall and understanding the differences between undergraduate locations of enjoyment and the places where “real people” spend time.

Burger baskets and fries at Bo James followed by foosball at Joe’s Place. (Joe’s mom’s place…as Josh calls it).

Love me some Iowa.

Sunday Part 2: A few minutes in the afternoon

6:15 p.m. Central Time

Crossing the Edwards River, Illinois — just outside of Kewanee.

Being inspired by Josh, I have decided to write a haiku, we call it, Maze:
corn corn corn corn corn
corn corn corn corn corn corn corn
corn corn corn corn corn

I sit quietly.

The On-Going Music Drama: A typical few moments of a typical Josh/Rachael music debate begins to unravel.

6:32 p.m. Josh plays “Crazy Bitch” by Buckcherry. Number Times Played Since We Left Virginia: 3

6:34 p.m. In response to Josh’s Crazy Bitch obsession, I play Life is a Highway. Josh proclaims loudly, and quite angrily, “This is the worst song in history. I hate this song. You get one chorus and then I’m cutting you off. That’s it.”

6:35 p.m. Josh’s blood pressure, temper and anger lowers dramatically when my ipod nearly escapes death, as promised, at the conclusion of the first chorus. Cue the Decemberists. Life settles and the adventure continues again, as it has for the preceding few hours. We return to looking at corn.

Sunday Part 1….

Sunday (Monday) Morning — Kentucky to Indiana to Ohio to Indiana.  It made sense then, now – not so much.

We stopped at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — home of the Indy 500.  It was raining and we couldn’t figure out how to drive on the track, so we just drove under it. Made sense to me.

Afternoon Fact of the Day:  As discovered at the Mackinaw Dells Rest Area somewhere in Illinois. 22 million acres of prairie land covered Illinois when the Europeans first ventured here.  Now, there is only 2200 acres of prairie land across the prairie state.