June 27-28 - 2018 Evansdale, Iowa

On Wednesday, the 27th, we moved from Elk Horn to Evansdale, Iowa (220 miles/350km).
This part of the country is farm country. This is the breadbasket (brødkurv) of the US.
Fields with wheat, soybean, corn etc. all over. Especially corn. We have seen lots of cornfields (majsmarker) when we drive in Minnesota. Also, in parts of South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, but I have never seen as many cornfields as in Iowa. That is pretty much what there is to see 😊.

Endless cornfields

So, with all that farmland, it is no wonder that John Deere has its tractor production in Iowa 😊.

Sights are scarce in this part of the country so we went for a factory tour at the John Deere factory in Waterloo (Mary was bored stiff 😊). I found it interesting though. My childhood was full of tractors so it was fun to see how they have developed during the last 50 years.
We were driven around inside the whole factory , alongside the assembly line (samlebånd)  for a little over an hour (No taking pictures allowed).

 I can see why you can’t let your 7-year old work in the fields with a tractor and equipment as when I was a kid. Back then they had as little as 35 hp (hestekræfter). Now the big ones have over 500 hp!
Tons of electronics. Cabin (førerhus) and roll bar (styrtbøjle) (we had none of that) and some are even equipped with a fridge (køleskab).

Other than that, it has mostly been getting the camper ready for sale.
We have had more response to our ad (annonce) on Craigslist than we expected.
We have a couple of people who want to see it already on Saturday (which is when we are getting to the Twin Cities).
So all of a sudden, we have had to change our plans and start working.

This concludes our stay in the 4 states we decided to go to, in order to have been in all of the lower 48 states. Our expectations about those 4 weren’t that high and I guess they lived up to that.
We did find some interesting things to see, but none of them will make our Top 10 list (if we ever make one 😊)

Off to Minnesota!

Written by JJ