I'd been wanting to go to Iowa for a while. Not necessarily to see anything in particular, just to go. After all, they helped launch the Obama campaign and their Supreme Court just legalized gay marriage...to borrow an expression from one of
my former co-workers: "Don't sleep on Iowa."As interesting as our tour of the Iowa state capitol building was, as oddly fascinating as the farms of wind turbines were, as pastoral as the University of Iowa & Iowa City was, and as endless as the fields upon fields of corn were, the most memorable part of our trip to Iowa ended up being a pure accident...
"The World's Largest Truck Stop." When we saw this sign sticking out along the neverending flatness of I-80, we had to take a detour and it didn't disappoint. Trucker gear, fanatic patriotism, greasy food, and hilarious Christian t-shirts were everywhere. We were entertained, and maybe even too much so...I remember saying "hurry up" as we were walking towards our car to leave.
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