We have left Owatonna, MN and traveled south safely again for two days spending the first night near Altoona, Iowa and last night just below Kansas City, Missouri in a spot called Peculiar, Missouri. The skies have cleared and we are enjoying a 20 degree rise in overnight temperatures. Walking last night after dinner without a jacket was decidedly a pleasure.
The draw of home has modified our plans and we are going to linger less along the way and drive more. As the sun touches the tiniest of white clouds above us beginning its climb over the horizon, we are already getting ready to get on the road.
The last two days have been a passage through rolling farmlands dotted with silver silos and red barns we've grown accustomed to. The corn is still not harvested nor the soybeans. In one area yesterday we saw evidence of the deluge of rain the farmers endured here about a week ago. The stalks of corn in one low lying field were muddy-looking two thirds of the way up what appeared to be totally dead stalks. The streams and rivers here are high and also muddy-looking. Fall leaves are still eluding us. And so it goes traveling south "on the road again."
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