hi kids!

[arethinn]

We're in Des Moines! Actually we're about to leave; I just noticed that this motel had a computer in the lobby. Iowa is pretty boring. Lots of corn fields (duh). There isn't a lot of difference in the landscape between Illinois and Iowa and I expect more of the same (except flatter; Iowa is kind of rolling) in Nebraska. We're going to be stopping somewhere in Nebraska tonight, I expect. So far the weather hasn't been too bad. It was snowing in Kalamazoo when we got up to leave yesterday, so I had to brush snow off my car with a towel and all, but the snow wasn't sticking on the ground so in terms of driving it was no worse than rain.

The coffee with the continental breakfast was disgusting.

There's a place called "Waffle House of America" in Michigan somewhere off I-94 W, about an hour or a little less past Kalamazoo. GREAT food. Excellent hash browns. I dunno what they season them with but it is really good. Their coffee wasn't so great either though. What is Tim Hortons doing right that everyone else is doing wrong?

Anyway, back on the road.

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[cudubh.livejournal.com]

It's my Honey and my opinion that IA is the most unfriendly state in the union. We started noticing it on our trips to NE and MO. They don't really list where food is off the hiways. Then on our honey moon we stopped at a "Hospitality Center" at the edge of the state, and they had pamphlets of all the "intresting" things to see in Iowa...locked up behind glass where you couldn't get any of them. So we started coming up with new mottos for Iowa like:

Iowa: We don't take kindly to strangers here.
Iowa: Children of the Corn was a Chamber of Commerce promotional film
Iowa: You know that Missouri's a nice state, why don't you gawk over there?