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If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« on: December 19, 2007, 09:11:10 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsWBD3UPfg4

No were not a bunch of dancing idiots but we do have a lot of interesting sites and this video shows quite a bit of them.

Friend of mine owns Spook Cave, so it was neat to see it in there. He also hosts annual Superbowl party in the cave, its a lot of fun.

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2007, 10:32:13 AM »
I've been to Iowa.

It's FLAT.

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2007, 10:44:21 AM »
I got the sudden desire to eat Corn on the Cob and wear a lot of denim after watching that....
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2007, 10:58:48 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on December 19, 2007, 09:32:13 AM
I've been to Iowa.

It's FLAT.



Not all of it....  We'll have to take your friend's Vette up to the Paleozoic Plateau next time you come visit, lots of nice twisty turns to stress tha fiberglass body.  About 90 miles from CR.

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2007, 11:18:02 AM »
When Iowa sent their football team to play here, they insisted on natural turf . . .

. . . so their cheerleaders could graze.   grin
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2007, 12:39:47 PM »
I've been up there.

It's called a plateau because it's a bunch of FLAT slightly elevated above the rest of the FLAT.
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2007, 12:41:29 PM »
You want me to watch that guy boogie for seven minutes?   undecided

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2007, 02:40:17 PM »
I have often thought that you could do great things with a road bicycle in Iowa.  As opposed to the constant grinding up hills here in Seattle.
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2007, 03:15:23 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on December 19, 2007, 01:40:17 PM
I have often thought that you could do great things with a road bicycle in Iowa.  As opposed to the constant grinding up hills here in Seattle.
Flat + straight + treeless = HEADWIND

Road cycling is more fun where the roads twist, the elevation changes, and trees are a common occurence.
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2007, 03:52:27 PM »
Ioway is not bad.  Nice country.  I can define nice country because I'm from Michigan and there is nothing much better till you get into the mountains.

Nebrasky on the other hand is flat!!! and so are both Dakoties.  Till you get to the west ends, then they begin to pick up speed..
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2007, 04:25:56 PM »
My first girlfriend was from Ioway.  Her dad's name was Delbert.
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2007, 05:59:10 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on December 19, 2007, 01:40:17 PM
I have often thought that you could do great things with a road bicycle in Iowa.  As opposed to the constant grinding up hills here in Seattle.

Come out and ride RAGBRI

http://www.ragbrai.org/

Just let me drive the sag wagon... screw the biking I just want to drink all night long and stare at skinny girls in spandex.



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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2007, 06:19:07 PM »
Not many petite girls in Iowa, huh?  Tongue  My Daddy's from up north Missouri.  He says you boys in Iowa got a special term for pretty girls.  "Tourist." 


OK, that's my only Iowa joke, and I've told it before.  Sorry. 
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2007, 06:21:04 PM »
Quote from: charby on December 19, 2007, 04:59:10 PM
Come out and ride RAGBRI

http://www.ragbrai.org/

Just let me drive the sag wagon... screw the biking I just want to drink all night long and stare at skinny girls in spandex.

Just so you don't make me eat here http://www.maid-rite.com/ again.  I could not sit right for days afterwards! shocked

stay safe.

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2007, 06:37:03 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on December 19, 2007, 05:21:04 PM
Quote from: charby on December 19, 2007, 04:59:10 PM
Come out and ride RAGBRI

http://www.ragbrai.org/

Just let me drive the sag wagon... screw the biking I just want to drink all night long and stare at skinny girls in spandex.

Just so you don't make me eat here http://www.maid-rite.com/ again.  I could not sit right for days afterwards! shocked

stay safe.

skidmark

Maid rites are the best.... 

How about a fried pork tenderloin bigger than a dinner plate?

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2007, 06:39:27 PM »
Quote from: fistful on December 19, 2007, 05:19:07 PM
Not many petite girls in Iowa, huh?  Tongue  My Daddy's from up north Missouri.  He says you boys in Iowa got a special term for pretty girls.  "Tourist." 


OK, that's my only Iowa joke, and I've told it before.  Sorry. 

Least our women still have our teeth and they don't call their father... uncle daddy.

So why don't they teach drivers ed and sex education in missouri in the same day?  Mule would get too tired

What is the defintion of a virgin in Missouri? A 10 year old that can outrun her brothers.

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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2007, 07:10:55 PM »
Quote from: Headless Thompson Gunner on December 19, 2007, 02:15:23 PM
Flat + straight + treeless = HEADWIND

Out and back!!
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #17 on: December 21, 2007, 01:43:17 AM »
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #18 on: December 21, 2007, 06:16:45 AM »
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #19 on: December 21, 2007, 07:10:01 AM »
Quote from: charby on December 19, 2007, 09:58:48 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on December 19, 2007, 09:32:13 AM
I've been to Iowa.

It's FLAT.



Not all of it....  We'll have to take your friend's Vette up to the Paleozoic Plateau next time you come visit, lots of nice twisty turns to stress tha fiberglass body.  About 90 miles from CR.



The area charby is talking about is part of what is called the Driftless Area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area

I believe the area around the Wisconson Dells is part of the phenomena also.

While it isn't mountains it is a nice change in topography compared to the limitless vistas of corn and soybean fields we are accustomed to in the Midwest.
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Re: If you ever wondered what Iowa really looked like.
« Reply #20 on: December 21, 2007, 09:04:17 AM »
Actually only about 20% of Iowa is what I would call truly flat and that is the Des Moines Lobe of the Wisconsin Glacier.

Unfortunately I live near the southern edge of that zone. Pretty dang flat where I live except river valleys, morraine piles or pahas.

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