A little about Iowa

Yesterday my family and I went on a trip from Iowa City to Keosauqua, the little town where we have a summer house on the Des Moines River (you can check out these place on GoogleEarth). There was an ice jam a couple of weeks ago, and you can see how badly it damaged the trees right in front of our cabin (look how high the water was - higher than the flood of 1993!).

Then we drove past the Pearson House, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad:

We ate lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, the Riverbend Pizza and Steakhouse:

There I had a bacon cheeseburger with fries for $3.95 (about 2,63 Euros):

Then we drove around looking for things to photograph, including the flat, fertile, black Iowa farmland:

and Amish buggies:

We finally made it to Riverside, Iowa, the FUTURE birthplace of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, of the STAR TREK Enterprise (yes, really!):