They fed me well with great local offerings: We had fantastic Indian food on Sunday pm, KC barbecue for lunch and deluxe pizza with all the grandkids Monday evening. I was able to see everyone who is in town.
Rain Monday AM was followed by absolutely perfect Fall weather. I was able to take a walk in their neighborhood Monday afternoon.
I headed to SD this morning, traveling through MO and Iowa on Lewis and Clark's route along the Missouri river. Gorgeous weather continued although cooler by this evening.
This is the breakbasket of the US. I didn't see a single cow until SD. MO & Iowa are full of corn, wheat and other crops - I am embarrassed as to my limited knowledge. Fence post to fence post with lots of harvesting, up until sunset.
[Machinery is amazing -- some single machines seem to be able to pick corn, separate into different bins and get land ready for new crop [may even be planting as they go]. Other farms seems to do this with several pieces of equipment.
Trivia:
Spanish radio is alive and well in the farm belt but not much hip hop. The headlines in the Omaha paper were 'VISA RULES,HARVESTS COLLIDE'. Omaha, Sioux City and Sioux Falls are booming. Passed ethanol plants -- very smelly. Lowest price gas in MO $2.42/ gallon for regular. I continue to be a rare European vehicle. I did see two VW's and then a BMW 740 with SD tags in Sioux Falls. People don't go much over the SD posted speed of 75 -- I was passing lots at 79.
Hunting season has started in SD. The Hampton Inn I am staying in is full with guys my age in pretty fancy hunting gear and carrying their guns into their rooms. Turns out 20% of the state has a hunting license.
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I think the fact that you need a Google “account”name/password does prevent some folks from venturing onto/into the blog to provide replies. But it is relatively painless to establish an account.
While traveling to work today ( Circleville, south central OH) I passed a Greyhound bus that was headed to St.Louis (per the nameplate destination on the front). That prompted me to send you the blog entry. Take NOTE- the world famous Circleville Pumpkin show starts next week (10/17/07) and rumour has it that the #1 contender may be in excess of 1400 lbs.
Regarding your current route, we (Ohio McBride family unit) have been only as far west as the S.Dakota Mt.Rushmore area. At that time we took the highway along the southern part of Minnesota rather than the Iowa alternative (which has the infamous corn-palace). But the massive fields of grain through out that part of the USA are impressive.
Let’s hope your European vehicle continues to perform well amidst all those American pick-up trucks. Based on some of the weather reports (2-4” of snowfall in N. Minnesota), it sounds like you’ll be having some cooler temperatures.
Let us know if you do travel through the Badlands of SW South Dakota. It’s an stark contrast with all the “bread-basket” terrain you have recently seen. Lucas/Sam/Ben all have said that the Badlands National Park was one of the more memorable places.
great to hear you went to the corn palace---at least i think you made it to the corn palace...we had a great time there on our great road trip of 2002 (or 2003)...anyway, trying to give you some photos if i can figure how to post.....
(i can't quite figure out..but when i do, i'll send you some great photos for others to see)...the land of america which the folks in ny and dc call "the flyover" but really part of the great part of america....anyway, keep on trucking
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