Why-I-Otta!!!! The sign struck me as funny as we were driving home today. It is a name of a town just outside of Council Bluffs. I won't write much about Council Bluffs, I will simply let the photo tell the story.
We left today and drove out of Nebraska. Honestly, Nebraska was a wild and wonderful kind of place with great people. It was wildly beautiful, but harsh and unyielding. Iowa strikes me as more hospitable. 
Iowa is the second largest wind turbine state in the USA. We passed several pieces going down the road. There are hundreds of them.... look at how large just one spoke of the turbine is.
Here is one assembled.... HUGE.... most of them were not turning today. It was raining and supposed to storm. Perhaps they shut them off.
Speaking of storming... it was when we left town today. Here is the van and trailer loaded down. The trailer is 18 feet long. The winds were horrific. I drove for a couple hours today, and during the worst of the wind, the steering wheel was turned about 40 degrees to the right to just try to keep the van on the road... UGLY. I have a whole new respect for truckers....
And, lastly on this blog.... check out the price of PREMIUM GAS! My Caddy would be in heaven and so would my check book. Premium gas is always 20 cents cheaper or so than the regular! Go figure.... finally someone told me that it was because it is 10% ethanol out here and so it is cheaper. 
No comments:
Post a Comment