{"id":11676,"date":"2020-07-29T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2020-07-28T23:41:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T04:41:40","slug":"2010s-state-travel-recap-a-town-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/2010s-state-travel-recap-a-town-view\/","title":{"rendered":"2010s state travel recap, a town view"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally written shortly after Christmas 2019, then fell down the line. You will see why that’s important. \u2014 Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n July 26, 2016:<\/strong>\u00a0Joice is 11 miles from the state line and half an hour from the nearest Wal-Mart (Albert Lea and Mason City).<\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the decade, though I hadn’t really crystallized the plan, I was in the middle of a 14-year quest to visit every incorporated community in Iowa.<\/p>\n

Now, going by my most recent visits to all locations, I visited all but 80 <\/em>Iowa towns in the 2010s. Of those, only five have a population above 2000, and only seven are in the area bordered by US 20, I-35, I-80, and the Mississippi River. For Ruthven, Lehigh, and Templeton \u2014 all unseen since 2003 \u2014 I’ll be back for better pictures someday.<\/p>\n

I didn’t quite “compress” my timeline to a decade, but 850-plus isn’t shabby at all. I mean, revisiting Riverton AND Ridgeway AND nearly every town on IA 10 is not just something I can do on a whim.<\/p>\n

In the past three years, I’ve been to all but 13 counties. My least-recently-visited four (Lyon, Sioux, Wayne, and Appanoose) are all border counties from my circumnavigation.<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 15, 2014:<\/strong>\u00a0Oyens, Plymouth County (recycled from this post).<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Do I have a list of Iowa towns I would like to live in if I didn’t have to worry about employment or access to a four-lane road? You betcha. Am I going to share it? Nope.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, at the moment, the near future isn’t looking great travel-wise. I have had some notable expenses, and the car isn’t getting any younger. I really need to plow some money into savings before the next recession (or worse).<\/p>\n

UPDATE 7\/29: So, about that recession (or worse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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