It seems that Independence, MO has an affinity for trains and those trains love to blow their whistles at all hours of the day and night. So there was no worry about waking up early to get on our way to our next stop that was about 5 hours away. Yesterday’s Mom and Pop farms were replaced with sprawling corporate farms growing mostly corn. The interstate sights in Missouri and Iowa were not very impressive but they do have a unique feature - most of the highways are pink. This is because the asphalt roads take on the color of the rock used to pave them. In this case, most of this area, especially in Iowa, have an abundance of quartzite, a hard rock with pink hues due to iron deposits, and that is what is heavily quarried for use in road building here. The highways we traveled on today are older so the quartzite is showing through making them pink. Made it to our Harvest Host in Nebraska, the Koffee Knechtion, owned by a delightful couple, Maureen & Darwin, just in time for a delicious lunch of broccoli and cheese soup and spinach and asparagus quiche. We parked in a shady spot under the cottonwood trees for the night. Next to our site are two air bnb’s built by Darwin on their 5 acre spread. One is the “hobbit house” which is partially underground and the other is an adorable treehouse. In the fall, they grow and sell hundreds of “unique pumpkins” including red and blue ones. Looking forward to fresh coffee and pastries in the morning by Chef Maureen. We’ve had mostly glorious weather so far on this trip, cool nights with the windows open and warm, but not too warm, low humidity days. Tomorrow is suppose to be a scorcher but then it breaks the next day, thank goodness. Wednesday, we advance to another Harvest Host in South Dakota, a cattle ranch.
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