June 8, 2015, 6:49 PM: The end of a journey years in the making.
Between March 20, 2003, and June 8, 2015, I traveled every mile of every current state, US, and interstate highway in Iowa at least once. (Some of those I traveled many, many more times.) My final segments were the IA 92 reroute onto the Muscatine bypass and IA 1 from Mount Vernon to its north end. Below is a small distillation of those thousands of miles, but it’s not just about the signs. It’s also about the towns, the scenery, the people, and the history those highways connect.
The trip has been long, and it has been rewarding. It’s also not really over, because the Iowa highway system continues to change. (Jason Hancock accomplished this same task a year and two weeks ago.)
You ask what land I love the best? Iowa, ’tis Iowa.
(number referenced in headline from here)
