{"id":7474,"date":"2016-05-20T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2016-05-21T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T17:37:29","slug":"visiting-every-town-where-am-i-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/visiting-every-town-where-am-i-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting every town: Where am I now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSeptember 17, 2014:<\/strong> One of my favorite Iowa town slogans is in Taylor County.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of 2015, I made a resolution to visit every incorporated place in Iowa<\/a>. I already had a list and was chipping away at it, and by that time\u00a0I had about 90 left, less than 10 percent of the 945 in the state but still a decent-sized number.<\/p>\n

Now, after two day trips in April, I’m down to 30. To illustrate how much out-of-the-way winding an objective like this requires, in 2013\u00a0there were 54 places on my list with a population under 100, and seven remain. (Still<\/em> kicking myself over not grabbing Nodaway and Carbon in October 2014.)<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 15, 2014:<\/strong> Only about 100 people call Oyens home. Oyens, like Gravity, has city limits juuuust off the state highway that runs beside it.<\/em><\/p>\n

While I try to get at least one picture in every place, sometimes nothing catches my eye. My goals are different from Cody Weber’s<\/a>, and that’s fine.<\/p>\n

Following my circumnavigation of the state at the beginning of fall covering 34 counties, there’s a pleasant side accomplishment of these trips: Over two years (starting 5\/22\/14), I visited 97 of 99 counties<\/strong>, with only Carroll and Fayette having earlier visited-dates. This span (really May 2014 to November 2015, with two other days this April) includes my departure from central Iowa, so it could be a while before I again have so many counties in so compact a time period.<\/p>\n

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\nSeptember 28, 2015:<\/strong> A train passes across the mouth of the Wisconsin River, as seen from the Pikes Peak State Park overlook (HIGHLY recommended).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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