We made it to Des Moines, Iowa! This was a complete football day. We ran into Notre Dame traffic heading into South Bend in the morning and we ran into the Hawkeye fans post-game going around Iowa City. Of course, with Debbie and I in our OSU gear for game day, we caught lots of heckling from the Iowans, but they ended up being pretty friendly. Chatted up Tressel, Pryor, and the future of the Bucks with some Hawkeyes at a rest stop, and their parting words to us were, "Beat Nebraska! We hate those assholes!" These people in Iowa are very serious about their football. I liked them instantly.
The drive has been good, but maybe a little on the boring side. We've had about 700 miles of rolling farmland with more to come tomorrow. We had some excitement in Indiana when my engine light came on (really??!?), but it's probably just the bad gas at the rapist gas station on the turnpike ($3.99/gal). We'll go with that.
With this drive being nearly identical state-by-state, Iowa feels like the edge of the universe. It feels as if tomorrow things will start to look different and we'll cross over into another world. I guess we'll see. As they said on one of my favorite shows, you never know where the day will take you.
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