We got up at 6:30 today for the second leg of our road trip, after a few weeks spent at the Houtman farm. We went with Anne's folks to the Linn county fair, and had breakfast there at the American Legion, and talked to a couple of interesting people there.
A goat checking things out. They seemed able to get out of their pens easily enough, but the one we saw hop out hopped back in when several guys started to surround him.
A pig getting hosed off.After our visit to the fair, we packed up and headed out up to Nebraska, near Omaha, by way of Missouri and Iowa. Iowa is a pretty impressive place - lots of corn fields and the like.
Tonight we are in a park in Nebraska, and tomorrow I check out a military museum before we go on. We will see a lot of stuff this trip, including Wounded Knee, Mount Rushmore, Little Bighorn, Laura Ingalls Wilder home in De Smet, the Badlands, the cornfield from "Field of Dreams, the headwaters of the Missisippi, Anne's old place in Galesburg, as well as picking up Abi and then Ben as we circle back to the old farm again for a few weeks there with the kids. Probably take a trip down to the ancestral grounds in Arkanas too with the grand folks!
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