Today's ride was pleasant, with temperatures in the low 80's all day. What clouds there were are were similar to those in this photo. From Richmond, MO, to Sioux City, IA there was an abundance of row crops, and mostly flat, except around Council Bluffs. I expected mostly corn, and there was more corn than anything else, but there was also an abundance of soy beans.
Today's ride paralleled the Missouri River all day, but tomorrow we split company as I continue north and the river heads to Great Falls, Montana in a NW direction.
I rode a combination of interstate and secondary roads. I was surprised to find that Iowa has a lot of gravel roads, many of which show up on their state map. So planning using secondary roads does not always work when one of your goals is to stay on paved roads where available. So I did some backtracking, but not too much, because after the second gravel road experience I limited my travel to nothing less than a designated state road....no more roads with CR (county road) designations. And, the secondary roads are often not in a good state of repair, or at least the ones on which I rode.
Unlike Tennessee though I saw no litter - NONE - on any of the secondary roads on which I traveled. It is not the dedicated cleanup, it is the mindset.
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