About nine in the morning we headed east into the sun. Luckily, for us cloudy overcast morning reduced the sun's glare.
We passed Le Mars, the ice cream capital of the world and on across miles of corn fields and large silos. The roads mostly straight was two lane dual carriage way with the pairs of lanes separated by wide grass mediums.
The flat prairie scenery was so interesting that I start to photograph the different types of power poles. Some with angular cross arms and others with short stubby horizontal arms.
About a third of the way through the journey we were deverted off the highway because of reconstruction. This lead us deeper into the countryside on a simple two lane road, much like our New Zealand roads. This brought as even closer to the corn, the farms, and the silos.
An interesting point about road markings here in the US is they use a yellow dotted line for the centre road markings separating the two opposing traffic flows. A white dotted line is used to divide two lanes going in the same direction. As Gary said no wonder they have problems with head on collisions when they come to NZ.
About halfway we stopped for lunch in the small town of Madelia. To us it looked like a typical small American town that we see on the news and in films.
However before turning off for lunch we past a stationary train--an exceeding long grain train that took 1.25 mins to pass while driving at 65 mph.You can do the calculations.
We continued on a brand new concrete road to Owatonna specifically to see the old bank building (Jane has described). After the bank we spent some time in a local book shop. Bought some books then headed on our way to Minneapolis. Our highway descended into a large congested city motorway--descended because I personally do not like travelling on city motorways. We saw the tall buildings of the city then crossed the Mississippi to arrive in Minneapolis.
- Posted Don
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