Wet Start, Nice Ending, Amana Iowa Here We Come: The Estate Takes on Alaska

Copyright 2019, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

September 10, 2019

Awoken this morning at 5 with hard rain. Went back to bed.  At 9:30 it was still raining. It finally stopped and we decided to run to Amanda. I think Man is hankering for some good Amish cooking. 

I took this photo before we pulled out.  See, all the rain, soaked up, gone.  Gotta say, the drainage here is super!  Man asked me to take this photo, and to be positive that Sony III was level.  I have a level in the view finder, easy peasy, I can do that.  The Estate still looks a bit un-level, but, Sony III was not.  I know, silliness - -   We were in a "side by side" site, a weeeee bit narrow, they will not park you in these sites if you have a driver's side slide out room.  We had no neighbors on either side of us, I'll admit it, that is nice.  After the storms last night, we are certainly glad we did not park under that tree! Nice clean campground, a KOA, translated - - a wee bit pricy.

12:12 departure. 74 humid degrees.  And, I see some blue skies!  

Adventureland Park. Ah, the memories.  We had purchased Big Butt, our first Tana hauling machine and had Tana on order.  As we waited, we decided to run out to Des Moines and do some serious Lashbrook research.  We landed at Adventure Park, not knowing what it was really, sighhhh.  They worked with us, and found us a campsite.  It was a great week of research and I helped a campground employee find her father, who had sadly passed, but, she was able to connect with 1/2 siblings she never really knew.  Yes, indeed, some good memories of that park.

We fueled up at Flying J. right next to Adventureland Park for $2.19 gal. Man remembers paying  close to $5.00 a gallon in the Yukon.  This may be the lowest price we have paid for fuel this trip.

DeSoto Iowa.  John  Wayne birthplace.  We did not stop, it was some distance off of I-80.

We did not take the route Man had planned, due to a sore back and mis-communications. So we drove about 25 miles further.  But it was a nice ride and we are good, we enjoyed the day. 

Iowa River,  places it looked dry?

Soy turning yellow. Lots of soy. 

Iowa 30?  Seemed like about 10 miles of construction.  Not one worker.  All that equipment. No workers?  Turns out it is a 7 year project, about $225 million.  Yes, I found an article on the internet. 

Amana Colonies.  Off the road at 3:45.   Warm, humid. Almost 60% humidity.  I drove most of the trip as Man's back was sore.  He did not take any photos, something about, "I don't care" right now.  He's forgiven.

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