{"id":9477,"date":"2017-12-26T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2017-12-23T00:11:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T06:11:56","slug":"a-very-short-summary-of-short-iowa-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/a-very-short-summary-of-short-iowa-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"A very short summary of short Iowa trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get around Iowa much in 2017. In fact, the trips I did take were often part of larger ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To and from Colorado in April, passing through different parts of southwest Iowa<\/li>\n<li>Short jaunts in May around Benton County and to Des Moines, where I tracked down pre-1980 endpoints<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Out through Davenport and in through Keokuk while mostly clinching US 6 in Indiana and fully clinching US 6 and 24 in Illinois<\/li>\n<li>A not-even-a-day-trip to Backbone State Park<\/li>\n<li>To and from Minneapolis for a road-geek meet<\/li>\n<li>And finally, my <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/whats-better-than-a-gunderburger\/\">second Gunderburger<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, I used those few trips to maximum potential as far as Iowa-related points are concerned. I have new pictures on pages for <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia2.html\">IA 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia46.html\">46<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia49.html\">49<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia90.html\">90<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia145.html\">145<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia210.html\">210<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia212.html\">212<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia259.html\">259<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia394N.html\">394 North<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia415.html\">415<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia978.html\">978<\/a>, and also <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/us161.html\">US 161<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/us218.html\">US 218<\/a>. (For a &#8220;light&#8221; year, I still managed to reach the southwest <em>and<\/em> southeast corners of the state!) More will come later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/a-very-short-summary-of-short-iowa-trips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}