{"id":10618,"date":"2019-03-08T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2019-05-24T01:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T06:18:41","slug":"four-count-em-four-visits-to-dows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/four-count-em-four-visits-to-dows\/","title":{"rendered":"Four, count ’em four, visits to Dows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSeptember 11, 2014:<\/strong>\u00a0Eight years after starting its partnership with CAL, Dows started sending students to Clarion-Goldfield, one of the few times a school switched sharing arrangements before eventual consolidation.<\/em><\/p>\n

(TLDR: I added a bunch of photos to the IA 72 page<\/a>, including a bunch from July 2011 that I edited in August 2012.)<\/p>\n

I have been to Dows four times for Iowa Highway Ends.<\/p>\n

The first time, 2003, was on the way to a North Tama football game at Sheffield. It was after class on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, but hitting both Randall and Dows to get photos for IA 383<\/a> and IA 72<\/a> added a couple blocks to my growing website and I discovered a unique case of a highway whose east end faced west.<\/p>\n

The second, in 2011, was a minor detour after a hotel stay in Lake Mills (with themed rooms) and a day that was mostly occupied with the Surf Ballroom and Music Man Square.<\/p>\n

I swung by for the school in 2014 after the news that the Dows school district would merge with Clarion-Goldfield<\/a> and its century-old building would close. That trip was to tackle a batch of tiny towns primarily in the north half of Humboldt County.<\/p>\n

And then, in one of my few trips last year, I looked up what I could use better or updated photos of in north-central Iowa and traveled the old route of IA 72 from US 69 to I-35 one more time. (Still think Wright County’s motto can be “I can see for miles and miles and miles…”<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I think I’ve covered just about every angle, but who knows. If there are other places I’ve been to that many times specifically for trips, I might post about those too.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 5\/24: Clarified caption. Also, Marathon is a four-timer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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