Six hours isn't even either end of this state.
Six hours isn't even either end of this state.
I live on the IA/WI border and Omaha is on the NE/IA border, so I have to drive to Nebraska but will essentially experience none of Nebraska, but I get to experience all of IA because I'll be traveling it's length from NE to SW. It feels like punishment, really.
Though the car salesman said "Nebraska is a whole lot like Iowa, just longer" so I doubt I'm missing much.
I prefer Iowa to Nebraska, but neither are Wyoming, so you have that.
I did Iowa on motorcycle last summer. I actually liked it a lot, fwiw.
But you only need to do it once.
I might put Children of the Corn on my tablet and watch that while we're driving through.
I like Des Moines. That and especially Coeur D'Alene are two places we are talking about moving to long term. A small house on a little land being as crazy as we wanna be through the twilight years? YUP. We might try to buy a place in a few years - either rent it out in the interim or just have a weird vacation home waiting to receive us permanently.
I checked the Trip Advisor page for the top attractions in Des Moines.
Good game, Des Moines. Good Effort.
~12 or so years ago, when Kansas City was voting on a tax increase for renovations to the baseball and football stadiums, there was a televised local debate and someone said, "Look, if we lose the sports teams, we might as well be Omaha, or Des Moines."
-Formerly Stabulator
Fuck. I thought I was the only one who remembered that quote.
Des Moines isnt bad. But it gets frigid fast there.
And it is Iowa. (Idiots Out Wandering Around)
Not sure why this bothers me, but it's one of those BMW/MINI things. The car I'm looking at Saturday has fog lights, front and rear, but no switches for them. The bulbs, housings, and wiring is there but you have to buy the switch yourself and convince a technician to program the car to use them. I guess the front fogs are used in certain situations (pathway lighting, probably) but the rears have no use in the US. Either way neither set of lights are manually switchable. This really annoys me. Also, the US didn't get the heated windshield (the Land Rover had one and it was great, and it had front/rear switchable fogs, blah) so there is a dead button on the console which also bothers me.
I'm easily bothered.