6/25/2022 0 Comments Snippet of IowaMy trip into Iowa was short lived. Nothing bad happened, I just biked exactly 20 miles in Iowa. Looking on the map, I biked a very, very, very small portion of Iowa. It's kind of funny, and that’s okay. Iowa was the 6th state I biked through. Although it might have been easy enough to go straight from Missouri to Nebraska, I decided to head further north into Iowa because of the campground. I didn’t have the energy to stealth camp, so campgrounds or motels it was. Waubonsie State Park in Iowa was essentially on the Iowa/Missouri border and the Iowa/Nebraska border, a win-win situation! The Iowa State Parks website was a little misleading – reservations aren’t made through the State, they’re made through recreation.gov, the same site used for federal campgrounds. I did not know that, and I was surprised when the Iowa SP site my email was already being used. Got it all figured out. Waubonsie State Park was cute. Scattered around the park, carved from tree stumps, were a turtle, Smokey bear, and an eagle to name a few. There were lots of caterpillars and bugs on my tent. I laid down in my tent and forced myself to stretch my legs before making dinner. My ride from Big Lake in Missouri to Waubonsie was physically easy but felt mentally taxing. I was tired and lonely and hungry and lonely. I forced myself to walk to the overlook to see this famed view and stretch my legs. Reviews on google say that people flock to the overlook to watch the sunset. I didn’t go at sunset, and I had the overlook all to myself. It was indeed cool. In the middle of the flats of the beginning of middle America, there was the Loess Hills. Would have been cooler with a friend. Iowa was short lived, but I hope to go back one day for the “Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa”
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