Wy-roaming

Greetings from the road! Currently in Cheyenne, on the way to Colorado Springs. It's been an epic journey with Mom so far, with hectic cities, wide open spaces, and time for conversation. I am so proud of my little Civic, because it is consistently getting 40 mpg, and we have traveled 1295 with no problems. Here's a map of our path so far:



Some observations on the road:
Chicago=Tolls. Tolls. Tolls.
Follow close behind a car with a bike on the back in heavy rain.
Throngs of windmills. Sometimes one, out of a group of ten, is turning the opposite direction. Why?
Abandoned cows, mostly dark brown
Land laced with infinite power lines, no house in sight
Sun-bleached pavement
"Amber waves of grain" that look very soft

A huge highlight has been the Field of Dreams in Heaven, I mean, Dyersville, Iowa. No advertising on the highway, nothing but a sign when we were three miles away (in the middle of nowhere). We arrived, and there were only a few cars there, but after an hour, there were about 15 people roaming and enjoying the absolutely perfect weather.


I had a catch, felt "the cool of the grass on my feet," and walked through the corn, which was not even a foot high yet. They said that for the movie, they needed the corn to be shoulder-high by shooting time; it was a very dry year, and they needed to dam a nearby river to create a reservoir to water the corn. They ended up watering it so much, and it grew so high, that Kevin Costner had to stand on a platform!

Saw a Pony Express station today, as a sidetrip off of i-80. The Pony Express existed for nine months, to speed up delivery of letters to California. Letters were literally transferred from horse to horse in a "mochila," kind of a second saddle.



Tired. Stretching my legs, then sleep.