Crossing Iowa, part three – American Gothic. This last and final Iowa post takes us from Belle Plaine (just west of Cedar Rapids) to the Mississippi River but without a stop in Clinton on the […]

Crossing Iowa, part two.   There’s not much to tell About my hometown Life is easy and the tempo’s slow But if you really want to find what’s in it You’ll learn in a minute All […]

Crossing Iowa, part one.   At the end of March I left the Great Plains, crossed over the Missouri River from Omaha to Council Bluffs and started my drive across the Hawkeye State, Iowa. My goal […]

Clinton, IA, on the Lincoln Highway, Sept. 2016.   It was very pretty along the river (especially in the morning mist).  There’s a riverboat now being used as a performance venue.  Gorgeous historic courthouse (1897). […]