East across the plains

From the ‘Bad Lands’ of South Dakota we descend to the plains, long distances, few towns or population and endlessly straight roads, that is until we got about half way through Iowa and our planned Interstate Highway 90 was closed due to flooding. I’m sure you have heard of this flooding disaster, 36,000 people flooded out, interstate highways closed, Amtrak Railway has canceled trains heading west and north out of Chicago. Millions of acres of crops lost to flooding. We detoured north then crossed the Mississippi River and headed back south to our original destination, about a 150 km detour.