Earache

Iowa is one large cornfield with interspersed hog farms. Weather is atrocious; stupidly hot and humid summers with cold and windy winters. Very flat and featureless - look at a map of the State - all of the roads are dead straight and go on for miles. In recent years, the number of meth-heads in the towns gas skyrocketed. Rural Iowa isn't all that bad as far as the people go though.

Having been to Iowa on multiple occasions and also having had the misfortune to actually live there for a short while, I can say, without reservation, that your Dad was a very smart man.

Got the new weather vane up. Probably have to go feed it around 5:00 PM....

@XTreme probably won't get it.....

You want a Ford F650 ...

Define "near" - by Euro standards I'd say no. By US standards I'd say yes. We have some closer to the front of our house but not a lot out back.

Bright sunny day today - looking out from the kitchen window.

I'll admit it - I'm a whore. I'll do just about anything for money.

Meanwhile, in Colorado ...

It's gonna be so nice out that I'm going for a ride!!!

Oh yeah, we have lots of 200 miles long stretches of road with no services, really gotta plan out your fuel stops. Not much of anything out there. And it gets worse into Utah, Wyoming and Montana. Have been on trips where others have run out of fuel as their bikes don't have very good range.

I have no idea. Most state borders have rivers or mountains defining them. That square area must be the random lines that were sold / stolen way back when. Nothing there except the town of Amarillo - I have a bike trip scheduled to go there in late April - if I can get the bike out. I shall endeavor to find out why it is shaped like that.

Not so much funny but interesting for some ....

-22C this morning - no ridinmg for me today.

Quit bitchin' - that's our high here today

I'd have that - looks good !

Attacked livestock and pets in the area. Just a matter of time before it goes after a child or adult. They are relocated once and if they come back they're killed to prevent loss of life to others. Sad but has to be done. Same is done with bears here.

No kidding. So many threads - makes the search function about worthless. Needs to be pared down a bit.

Not for sport - to keep them from attacking livestock and pets mostly. They'll attack humans as well. We've had a huge spike in the number of attacks around here lately. I see their tracks in the snow in my yard all the time - hate like Hell to meet up with one in the yard some night.