Iowa to S. Dakota to N. Dakota

It is October 3 on a Sunday, the temperature is 36 degrees and the sky is clear!  We are on the road at 7am.

It's so cold that steam rises from the rivers and lakes.

Wind generator farms are active on the bluffs, and erupt skyward right out of the soy and corn fields.

Corn fields go on and on.

A fill-up takes only 6 or 7 gallons of fuel and gives a huge 45 miles per gallon.

Water in the lowlands between the soy and corn fields.

As we pass rivers, they are steaming with fog in the cold crisp air.  We passed up Iowa's Aviation Museum.  Dick says he's not really interested in stopping, so we didn't.  We see huge wind farms as we travel on I-80.  We see terraced farming as we drive along the bluffs growing corn and soybeans and later surgar beets and sunflowers.  Encountering lots of road construction, but only are required to slow down to 65 from the normal 75 mph.  There are many state roads of gravel that go along the freeway and as cars travel over them at what seems breakneck speeds, we are covered with the clouds of dust when the wind blows our direction.  After putting on 308.4 miles, we gas up our car and will only take 6.9 gallons....love it!  This time it said we got 44.7 miles per gallon......great little focus!!!  We are passing gleaner combines, J.D. combines, and many more types...Dick is really enjoying watching the machinery in action!  There is a lot of swampy land between the corn and soy fields in low areas.  We cross from S. Dakota into N. Dakota at 3:15pm.  Dick has a friend in Fargo that he would like to locate, so we will stop there......no luck....not in the phone book.  He taught this young man to fly about the time Pete Brawn got his pilot's license.  North Dakota is called the Bread Basket of the World with all the farm products they harvest here.  Also passed a sugar refinery and watched truckload after truckload of surgar beets being brought in.