Day 3
States visited: Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota
Lowest gas price: $2.03 (for 89, which was cheaper than regular!)
After waking up to sirens (apparently Davenport isn’t the best area I’ve stayed in) I got on the road towards Des Moines, and traveled throught yet more cornfields and rolling hills. I expected Iowa to be completely flat, and it was, but there were also gently rolling hills throughout. Des Moines was a complete surprise, not what I expected at all. There is this thing called the Skywalk, which connects a lot of the downtown buildings together and over streets with pedestrian bridges. All throughout its like a mall inside. I didn’t spend all of my time in the Skywalk though, I walked from downtown to the capital building (going through the East Village on the way) and walked past the history of Iowa museum. The part of the museum I liked the most was the depiction of frontier life for the soldiers. Des Moines was a definite unexpected highlight of this trip, I would love to go back for longer sometime. From Des Monies I made a last minute decision to go north to Minnesota, not that there was anything I could see, but just to say I went through Minnesota. The trip north and throughout Minnesota was more like what I expected Iowa to be, cornfields and flat, flat land. I saw my first sunset of the trip tonight, due to weather. I ended my journey for the night in a small town just over the South Dakota border, called Brandon. Tomorrow I expect it will be my favorite part of the trip, as I have Mt. Rushmore planned and all the rest of the badlands.
Lowest gas price: $2.03 (for 89, which was cheaper than regular!)
After waking up to sirens (apparently Davenport isn’t the best area I’ve stayed in) I got on the road towards Des Moines, and traveled throught yet more cornfields and rolling hills. I expected Iowa to be completely flat, and it was, but there were also gently rolling hills throughout. Des Moines was a complete surprise, not what I expected at all. There is this thing called the Skywalk, which connects a lot of the downtown buildings together and over streets with pedestrian bridges. All throughout its like a mall inside. I didn’t spend all of my time in the Skywalk though, I walked from downtown to the capital building (going through the East Village on the way) and walked past the history of Iowa museum. The part of the museum I liked the most was the depiction of frontier life for the soldiers. Des Moines was a definite unexpected highlight of this trip, I would love to go back for longer sometime. From Des Monies I made a last minute decision to go north to Minnesota, not that there was anything I could see, but just to say I went through Minnesota. The trip north and throughout Minnesota was more like what I expected Iowa to be, cornfields and flat, flat land. I saw my first sunset of the trip tonight, due to weather. I ended my journey for the night in a small town just over the South Dakota border, called Brandon. Tomorrow I expect it will be my favorite part of the trip, as I have Mt. Rushmore planned and all the rest of the badlands.
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