Iowa travel thoughts.....

Diane here…

Just a few thoughts as we are traveling through BEAUTIFUL Iowa on our way to Kansas City …..We are excited to plant ourselves in KC for a few days to spend time with our son, Nicholas, or as Kai says with giant smiles, “Uncle Nick!”

So thankful to have had time with Joe and Sandy (we met Joe, Sandy, SaraH, and Chloe when we lived in Hawaii) in their Wisconsin homeland ~~ land of good friends, cheese, and THE PACKERS.  How wonderful it is to have friends who really know you, love you, AND like you….that would be Joe ‘n Sandy.  Loved our window of time God gave us with you!

 

Madison, Wisconsin, with our friends, Joe and Sandy.

 

 

Now we are in Iowa….

I thought  Iowa would be just Iowa.  But it is truly gorgeous, dazzling fall colors, golden farmland IOWA. And our campground at River Creek was over-the-top spectacular with autumn bursting forth everywhere.  (and a lake for doggies WOOF WOOF).

Abby is going to post more thoughts and PICS from our dazzling Iowa Rock River Campsite...

But before I sign off – just have to share this story.

We stopped to fill up Maxine before gettin’ on the highway (gas is  $3.79/gallon in Iowa …in case you are askin’ the question).  The gas station was also a local burger hang-out place and it was filled with farmers in their caps and dusty overalls enjoying lunch and their latest  stories.  As we were almost ready to leave there was a woman who came out carrying big brown paper bags, obviously filled with lots of lunch.  She headed toward a GIANT tractor that pulled a large grain type trailer/wagon (I know there is an official name for that harvest-hauler----sorry I don’t know what it’s called …. Harrumph).  I waved to her, she held the brown bags high-up into the air and yelled to me, “Lunch for the harvest crew….!” I thought, you totally rock J, lunch catered via tractor….   

I had to snap of picture of her…. at the very same moment she grabbed her camera and snapped a pic of us.  She gave us a thumbs-up as she looked at Dori, our very non-Iowa aloha-eurovan!    Smile

Love to all…….