The first few days heading west out of NYC were boring days on the freeways battling heavy crosswinds. It wasn't till I hit northern Iowa that I started to have some fun.June 2006

In Iowa, I decided to rest a few days and work on the bike. I ended up finding some nice gravel roads. The area is south of Sioux City and is called Koess Hills where they have a small series of gravel roads called the Stagecoach Loop. It looked to me like nobody except the people living along the road use it. The closest town is Onawa where there is a nice place to eat called The Pub at one of the corners along the main street. There is also a KOA campground off the interstate.

I was getting entranced by the decaying building I was increasingly seeing along the road as I got deeper into the middle America. They just seemed to symbolize a lost time no longer appreciated. Time was just passing them by.

I crossed into the vastness nothingness of Nebraska to ride Route 2 through the sandhills up to Alliance to see Carhenge. Again, this was a whimsical roadside attraction that really is not worth going out of your way for. Someone recreated Stonehenge using abandoned cars. They just sit out in a field off route 2. I'm told there is another on somewhere else in the United States.