5000 Miles Part Two
Sometimes taking the long way isn't a big mistake. I knew a trip from Miami, Florida is going to be a long trip, and I didn't like the idea of driving by myself to Iowa or Oklahoma City. I could have flown if time was an issue but these days time isn't the biggest concern.
I started out for Altoona, Iowa on Sunday, 9/20/2015. I returned to Miami, Florida on 9/29/2015 and in between time I went to a horse sale at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City, and returned to Altoona, Iowa, and saw horse races at Remington Park in Oklahoma City and Quarter Horse Racing at Prairie Meadows Race Track in Altoona which isn't far from Des Moines.
Quarter horse racing which I follow and participate in to a very small amount moves around the country in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Iowa and recently Florida and other states like Minnesota, and Indiana and throughout the Inter mountain West.
I left Miami on this tour to escape the end of summer and to hopefully get some cooler weather. Starting day two of the journey it was about 60 degrees when the arrived in Indianapolis. I could have gone north and gotten to Iowa by way of Chicago and seen the sights of Chicago but it would have been an issue with the folks in Iowa. They were working and needed to get to Oklahoma City on Wednesday afternoon. Logistically this made little sense but talking horses while driving west and south on 1-35 would be "fun and educational".
Leaving Indianapolis, I could have called into the farmer shows I've started listening to on the satellite radio in my car with my own crop reports. About half way through my trip to Iowa, I'm amazed by how big and beautiful this country is, as in "for amber waves of grain". Danville, Champaign, Bloomington/Normal, Peoria, Galesburg, and then we crossed the river (the Mississippi) into Burlington, Iowa.
It's been over forty years since I went to school at ISU in Normal and the college towns seem modern and up to date compared my foggy memories back in the day. As the bus moved west I was traveling ground in the USA that I'd never seen before. The geography lessons were coming fast and furiously.
To be continued.
I started out for Altoona, Iowa on Sunday, 9/20/2015. I returned to Miami, Florida on 9/29/2015 and in between time I went to a horse sale at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City, and returned to Altoona, Iowa, and saw horse races at Remington Park in Oklahoma City and Quarter Horse Racing at Prairie Meadows Race Track in Altoona which isn't far from Des Moines.
Quarter horse racing which I follow and participate in to a very small amount moves around the country in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Iowa and recently Florida and other states like Minnesota, and Indiana and throughout the Inter mountain West.
I left Miami on this tour to escape the end of summer and to hopefully get some cooler weather. Starting day two of the journey it was about 60 degrees when the arrived in Indianapolis. I could have gone north and gotten to Iowa by way of Chicago and seen the sights of Chicago but it would have been an issue with the folks in Iowa. They were working and needed to get to Oklahoma City on Wednesday afternoon. Logistically this made little sense but talking horses while driving west and south on 1-35 would be "fun and educational".
Leaving Indianapolis, I could have called into the farmer shows I've started listening to on the satellite radio in my car with my own crop reports. About half way through my trip to Iowa, I'm amazed by how big and beautiful this country is, as in "for amber waves of grain". Danville, Champaign, Bloomington/Normal, Peoria, Galesburg, and then we crossed the river (the Mississippi) into Burlington, Iowa.
It's been over forty years since I went to school at ISU in Normal and the college towns seem modern and up to date compared my foggy memories back in the day. As the bus moved west I was traveling ground in the USA that I'd never seen before. The geography lessons were coming fast and furiously.
To be continued.
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