If you've never been to Iowa, this is pretty much what it looks like:
This was along US30 near Animosa, and I saw this kind of scenery most of the day today. These are huge corn fields.
The first stop today was the National Motorcycle Museum in Animosa, Iowa. I had actually been to the previous, much smaller museum once a number of years ago, but the museum relocated to a much larger building about 5 years ago. It is pretty impressive:
At any rate, you're probably tired of looking at old motorcycles, so I'll push on.
I continued west on US30 until I came to the little town of Boone, Iowa. Turns out, Boone is where Mamie Eisenhower was born and where her extended family continued to live after Mamie's parents moved to Denver around 1897 or so. I stopped at the house and there was a little old lady in attendance who must have been one of Mamies' babysitters when she was little...well, maybe not, but she did know Mamie because Mamie and Ike would come to Boone periodically to visit family. This was Mamie's family's residence when she was born in 1896:
That was pretty much it for Boone today. I'm in the little town of Carroll for the night and then on into Nebraska in the morning.
Miles today: 263
Total: 1,500