The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
Regional Roundup 2: The Midwest
The Midwest includes everything between North Dakota and Michigan and then down to Kansas and across to Ohio. Pluses for the Midwest include the relatively low cost of living. The Northern Midwest in particular is generally very well run in terms…
Days 39-40: HiJenx Star Trek Special
The next day we got some more massages from that lovely place in Springfield, PA: Taiji AcuCare. We hung out with Val in Media a bit to give her keys back and greet her lovely cats: In the evening, Mike (Val’s…
Day 18 Part 3: Onto Illinois
We ended the day by entering Illinois: Check out our video of our final impressions of Iowa and first impressions of Peoria, Illinois:
Day 18 Part 2: The Future Birth Place of Captain James T. Kirk
I must admit, the last stop of the day was our actual favorite, but definitely just for tourism purposes. We went to Riverside, IA: They have a little Star Trek museum there, run by an old woman who just…
Day 18 Part 1: Chocolate Cheese & Iowa City
We made our way across eastern Iowa to what turned out to be a total tourist trap. There are some small towns called the Amana Colonies. They were a series of villages settled by German pietists. In the modern day,…
Days 16-17: Des Moines, Iowa
We took a travel break to meet up with my parents. Several items hadn’t arrived by the time we left Wisconsin, including my state ID and our car insurance card (we had a temporary one, but it was only good…
Day 15 Part 2: En Dansk Vindmølle i Iowa
After Omaha, we headed back into Iowa. In the same way that Kansas is mostly a wheat field, Iowa is mostly a corn field. There was a lot of nothing for a while. We stopped int a small town called…