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That’s how I prefer my women too.
I think we always had that potential as trees and shrubs can grow damn near anywhere. It was the bison and prairie fires that kept trees at bay.
But I agree that if you walked away from everything the way it sits today, within 30-50 years you would see a full covering of deciduous shrub trees that would look like the Cross Timbers area in Oklahoma. Just a tangle of thick underbrush and short trees that choked everything out. A real mess.
The stretch between the Missouri and the Loess hills is as flat as flat gets but other than that Western Iowa is definitely not flat. Central Iowa between hwy 30 and hwy 20 can be quite flat as well.
When you say western Iowa what area are you speaking of geographically? Where I grew up it seemed we were in southwest Iowa and some said we were in western Iowa. According to the Omaha World Herald, sports wise, we were always southwest Iowa.
Westfield is actually located adjacent to the Big Sioux River, that dumps in to the Missouri at Sioux City and it's the Missouri the rest of the way.
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Salt Flats and Western Kansas it is flat as far as the eye can see, 65 mph and 15 minutes later, flat as far as the eye can, and so on forever it seems
All in on Qwik Star. Far superior to Casey’s and I’m glad they’re expanding heavy into Iowa.
Many years ago coming back from Breckenridge, CO we were coming through Denver, the driver somehow got on I-70 instead of I-76 to get to I-80 around 9 pm. Kinda like the Dumb and Dumber movie, John Denver was still full of Sh#t even as we were going east. Suburban with 6 people in it and the driver had it pegged for about 3 hours. We even turned the lights off as the moon was so bright that night. We were playing follow the leader with another car. I just sat in the back drinking gin and tonics. So we missed Lincoln, NE by and hour or so since we kinda went out of the way. We headed north out of Salina to get to I-80. Trip went pretty fast.
I'm guessing there was a flood and the river re-routed itself, but they kept the boundary line the same. Pretty clear evidence of the old riverbed going where that dashed line is. There are similar areas over by the Omaha airport, too. Starting in Nebraska, you have to drive through Iowa to get to the Omaha airport coming in from the south.
The old franchised Casey's stores were awesome. They all had their own unique things they would make and their pizza and donuts were the best. Now everything is driven by corporate and it just isn't quote the same. I still love Casey's pizza and every once in awhile you will get one that takes ya right back to your childhood.
I knew that, but just slipped on it. My main point was that rivers run at angles.
Is Hwy 20 considered an interstate highway?
Dubuque (at least according to an old radio commercial I grew up with) is Iowa's oldest city on the Mississippi.
Hwy 20 is not in the interstate system. Only routes marked with the R, W & B shield are interstates.
Odd numbers go generally N/S and even numbers generally E/W with routes ending in 5 or 0 generally being border to border or close to it.
Also 3 digit routes starting in an odd number are generally spurs while those starting with an even number generally return to the parent route. e.g. 235 loops off of 35 and back to it while 380 is a spur leaving 80 and not returning.
Finally, lower number N/S routes are west with high number in the east. Lower number E/W routes are in the south with high numbers in the north.
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I believe Strawberry Point claims the world's largest strawberry.
I have to say, it's a big one!
I have to say, it's a big one!
6 is considered a diagonal route (at one time it went from Massachusetts to Long Beach California, then the longest federal route in the nation) with its numbering outside of the route numbering norm. 67 is also out of order (east of 61, 63 and 65 in Iowa) but it is an odd duck anyway going from the US Mexican border in W Texas to the Iowa Illinois border. It is more of an E/W route in Texas but a N/S route around the Mississippi River.
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