We woke up early, and it was such a pretty morning we decided to take a walk and do some geocaching. The campsite was next to a trail, some of which was on a boardwalk over some wetlands. (One sign said wetlands have more animal life per acre than any other ecosystem. Really? We would have picked jungles…) The humidity of yesterday was gone and it was a great walk. We found one geocache on the boardwalk almost right away. Another one must have been muggled, because we couldn’t find it, and it should have been easy. There were a few more in the nearby cemetery…did we mention the park was right next to the quietest neighbors? We couldn’t get into the cemetery from the park, so opted to do those after breakfast so we could drive to the entrance. It was a beautiful cemetery, with quite a variety of headstones and monuments. We found 3 more caches here before we hit the road.
A nice fishing scene we saw on our walk
Indiana gave way to Illinois and then Iowa. Interstate 80 was a faster road, but full of trucks and amazingly, 2 serious accidents that we had to get off and detour around. Must be all that straight, straight road. Except when we went around large cities like Des Moines, the countryside was all farmland with a few trees interspersed here and there. Fields looked plowed, and maybe planted, but nothing looks like it’s coming up yet.
A beaver's work near our path
We decided to drive a little further today, and ended up in the western part of Iowa, in a city park in Adair. Seems quiet so far, but we heard a train a moment ago. We just had to laugh…trains seem to be a constant on this trip. We heard them last night in Indiana as well.
Canadian Goose showing its better side
The last hour of our drive was a bit dramatic. The sky got darker and darker, and then, zap! Lightning everywhere, and huge raindrops. This actually happened around lunchtime, back in Illinois as well….the temperature there dropped from 94 to 70 in a matter of minutes. This time, the temp went from over 80 to 60 about that fast. The lightning lit up the whole sky, as well as zigzags that seemed to split the sky right in front of us. Harris turned on the CB radio, and the weather report said to be on the look out for tornados, as these can develop without warning in these fast moving storms. Great. We didn’t know which county we were in, but Judy kept a worried eye on the sky until the storm seemed to pass. Tune in tomorrow to see if we’re still here!
Well, maybe this is the better side...
Miles driven today =575
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