Dateline: 30 July 2025
As we have stated in past posts, one of the main reasons we ventured forth on this, our Great Chain of Discovery, was to see and experience adventures, sights, and places, and to lessen the things we possess in life.
It has been an amazing success!
Along the road, we've seen some really nice parks, friendly people, and many live up tom the midwest ethos of friendliness and ease of conversation.
As we traveled through Iowa, it occurred to us that yes, it DOES look just like the postcards! Green lush, cornfields for literally hundreds of miles through the gently rolling countryside. Picture book farms, all neat as a pin, then we went to…Indianola.
Oh!
Em!
GEE!!
Of all the towns we’ve driven through, Indianola was truly the MOST beautiful of them all: gorgeously integrated into the rolling landscape, yards perfectly mowed, not a speck of rubbish anywhere. All the homes were in top notch condition, and we saw nary a sign of blight, anywhere.
I had to tell someone, and spotted a volunteer firefighter, standing outside her station: she was much t"ken aback, at first, this total stranger walking up to her, to say, “I LOVE your town!’
She warmed to the conversation, and said it was an up and coming area, as people moved out of the bigger cities. sorry to0 say, I took no photos of it, so you’ll just have toilet paper google some!
Dateline: 30 August 2025
We are now on our way back south, as the summer slips into fall, with some colors starting to show in the northern forests. We are at Renee’s family farm, in western Oklahoma, and will be writing about the missing gaps!
These are our next-door neighbors..:)
Till then, happy Labor Day to all!
