Yes, we had the thrill of crossing the wide Missouri today on our journey to Des Moines from Kearney, Nebraska, a distance of approximately 300 miles. I enjoyed the gentle rolling countryside of Iowa with its brown ploughed and furrowed fields, following the contours of the land, contrasted with some smaller fields of early green crops (I don't know if this is corn or wheat country). There are scattered, pretty, old fashioned farmhouses adjacent to neat farm buildings, beside copses of trees, kept as windbreak or shade, just now coming into leaf. Some farms have a few fruit trees in full blossom.
Another straightforward day. We more or less stayed on Interstate 80 until we got to Des Moines. Here we intend to allow ourselves a little time to savour Bill Bryson's home town, before setting off on our last leg to Flossmoor, Chicago on Thursday.
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