Motel 6 Des Moines North

... at things from the WWII era and tried to see what was what in concerns to things Grandpa might have done, medals and badges he earned, and equipment he might have operated. Then it was back to the Interstate Highway. I35 North was closed to a car accident which left 4 dead and 4 injured that required rerouting. I sufficiently slept through Missouri and am now awake writing this in the last 30 miles before I need to ...

... a whole lot else of that meal unfortunately. By the way, Americans LOVE cheese. I swear they have cheese on cheese.

After lunch Amanda headed off and we had to get down to the chapel to help Nate and the groomsmen with final touches. We plugged 'Simpson College' into the GPS and off we went. We hadn't even left the car park and we were trying to overtake a mini-van in a dual lane road when it cut us off. We were a little shocked and still with little experience I hung back ...

... I were moving to a motel while Alicia had to pack for her honeymoon in Madrid. Nate arrived home around midday so he, Alicia, Nate's best mate Chris (who had come up from Indiana) and myself went down to the Indianola Country Club to set a couple of things up for the reception. An hours hard work and the boys headed back while Alicia took me on the grand Indianola tour to get my bearings. I saw Simpson College where Alicia studied as well as Smith Chapel (where Alicia and Nate were to ...

I woke up to my first full day in the US; the sun was up and coming in through the blinds. I had not banked on it being 6:30am though. This isn't work and I need sleep people. I also found out Kym is an early riser as she was up and about and battling Alicia's cats to get outside for a smoke.

Kym and I had a chat and started making plans to explore and just as we were getting somewhere in the planning everyone else gets out of bed. And this was before 8:30am! Nate had ...

... middle a gurgling stream is an enclosed bridge (as seen in the movie) stretching across. There are several of the bridges around town, we saw a few but our fav was probably at the town park where they also had a castle like structure and a big garden maze, fun! And to add to the appeal of this town it is also John Waynes birth place. They have the house he was born in ...

I thought I should provide a little background info about my journey. A lot of people have asked me why I wanted to travel in Southeast Asia. Here's a list of reasons:

-SE Asia is cheap
-European tours are so cliche
-I love Asian food
-Ancient temples
-World-class SCUBA diving
-Volcanoes
-Cultural ...

... 8217;s finest farmland. The gently rolling landscape is green and beautiful, and its skies fill with gigantic stacks of cumulus clouds unlike any seen in Utah.
Some of the travelers went to the Living History Farms, a 600-acre complex of working farms that preserves the essence of rural life over three centuries. The complex includes a replica of an Ioway Indian village from around 1700; a mid-19th-century pioneer farm; and a modern agricultural operation.
Others visited the ...

... an area. Tom, the parking attendant, wearing a dirty Vietnam vet trucker cap, directs us to Fong's Pizza, where we will be meeting Billie Greenwood and our host for the night.

We talk to him for a while, as another customer drives in. I couldn't resist, so I took a picture of the white bread snadwich he left on the bumper of a random car. I giggled uncontrollably. Ryan needs to wash some clothes so he does that, I throw my Air Force shirt in there as ...