Iowa

We awoke  in Grand Island, Nebraska and began driving east and soon found ourselves in Iowa. Despite our best hopes, the landscape of Iowa had not become more interesting since our last visit:

Our destination for the day (don't laugh please...) was the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. It surpassed our wildest dreams for the location, although we didn't expect much after seeing cornfields for eight straight hours. Many of the original buildings remain, including his childhood cottage, his father's blacksmith shop and his schoolhouse. The national park service has yet to let us down. Even the sites that sound completely bland have been set up well and include interesting historical tidbits.

We are spending the night in Walcott, Iowa intending to make Chicago by tomorrow evening!