I didn’t get around Iowa much in 2017. In fact, the trips I did take were often part of larger ones:
- To and from Colorado in April, passing through different parts of southwest Iowa
- Short jaunts in May around Benton County and to Des Moines, where I tracked down pre-1980 endpoints
- To and from the Lincoln Highway convention in Denison, west on 30, to Omaha on one of the days, and then back via Charter Oak and IA 175
- Out through Davenport and in through Keokuk while mostly clinching US 6 in Indiana and fully clinching US 6 and 24 in Illinois
- A not-even-a-day-trip to Backbone State Park
- To and from Minneapolis for a road-geek meet
- And finally, my second Gunderburger.
However, I used those few trips to maximum potential as far as Iowa-related points are concerned. I have new pictures on pages for IA 2, 46, 49, 90, 145, 210, 212, 259, 394 North, 415, and 978, and also US 161 and US 218. (For a “light” year, I still managed to reach the southwest and southeast corners of the state!) More will come later.