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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: g'nad
I've driven through Iowa a couple of times.
It's very flat.
To: g'nad
See, your problem is that you live in
Northern Virginia and that's really a different state.
Head to the Eastern Shore, head to Southwest Virginia, drive through the Shenandoah Valley. That's Virginia.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
You dove across I-80 I take it?...Yeah, the northern half of the state is fairly flat, and the further NW you go, the flatter it gets...Iowa is not nearly as flat as Nebraska, norther kansas, or the Dakotas
Southern Iowa, where I'm from, is rolling hills, timber and small farms...used to be a lot of soft coal and gypsum mining... at the beginning of the 20th century, Iowa was the biggest producer of soft coal...the Eastern areas along the Mississippi and Western near the the Missouri are pretty rolling hills...
To: g'nad
Those are some great pics g'nad.
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To: Corin Stormhands; Bear_in_RoseBear
Head to the Eastern Shore, head to Southwest Virginia, drive through the Shenandoah Valley. That's Virginia. It's all VA pal... I love the Shenandoah and SW VA...looked into property there, but it's just too durned expensive fer a tired old jarhead...Southern VA is flatter than most area in Iowa...
I'm lookin' to move back to the midwest (Ozarks preferably) when I retire next year...
We're lucky to live onthe Base here...it's like a big green quiet calm oasis in the middle of the madness...it's so bad here, I don't like to go anywhere on weekends cuz the gridlock...It can take an hour and a half to get to Fredericksburg 20 miles away...
To: g'nad
You dove across I-80 I take it?.Nope, I-35, heading north. The parts we saw were in the northern and western parts of the state. Those pics are of some really pretty country, I'll grant you that!
To: ksen
Thanks...I swiped'em from an Iowa tourism site...you can probably understand why I long to get back, grow a big garden, and spend some time alone and with my family in country like that...I'm not whinin' or complainin', but I'm tired...I wanna go home...
To: g'nad
To: g'nad
I wanna go home... You know, Sam said something very similar to Frodo, just before they left on the worst journey of their lives...
To: ksen
I just invited him. We'll see!
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Nope, I-35, heading north aaahh yes, I-35
Length in Iowa: 219 miles/352 kilometers
Northern terminus: Minnesota state line south of Albert Lea, MN
Southern terminus: Missouri state line south of Lamoni
Counties: Worth, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Wright, Hamilton, Story, Polk, Warren, Clarke, Decatur
Cities along route: Hanlontown, Clear Lake, Swaledale, Thornton, Latimer, Williams, Ellsworth, Randall, Story City, Ames, Elkhart, Ankeny, Des Moines, Johnston, Urbandale, Grimes, Clive, West Des Moines, Cumming, Martensdale, Bevington, St. Marys, St. Charles, Osceola, Van Wert, Decatur City, Lamoni
To: g'nad; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; HairOfTheDog; ksen; All
Smeagol is in the house!!!!!
To: Corin Stormhands
You know, Sam said something very similar to Frodo, just before they left on the worst journey of their lives... Thanks for reminding me...oh well, I'm in it for the long haul...I'm with the guy that knows where the fish are...
To: g'nad
I was in Iowa once... I loved it. It was in the summer (June)... and it was green and lush... Rates up there as one of my favorite states!
To: carton253
smeagol, you'll be happy to know 4 y/o g'nad jr gets a kick out of imitating gollum's voice from the trailer..."we wants it! My precious"...he thinks "the twisted guy" is pretty neat...He still thinks axes are the coolest though...
To: carton253
Smeagol is in the house!!!!! Should we lock up the silverware? :)
To: g'nad
oh well, I'm in it for the long haul... Aren't we all? Spending a week at the beach, I really want to go ahead and buy my retirement home there (even though I grew up in the mountains). I'm ready to retire...right now...today...
To: Overtaxed
Only if you want to keep it!!!
To: g'nad
Well... tell 4 y/0 g'nad jr that he's right. The twisted guy is pretty neat. I like g'nad jr.
To: carton253
I came back on leave once in early June, not having been back for 5 years, and was stunned to see just how green it was...lush is right...and I was coming from the tropics...so it wasn't like I was coming from a desert...it really made an impression on me...
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