few things I learned about Iowa
... the terrain is flat. Well, saying the terrain is flat would not be doing justice to the flatness. I The roads are so flat that at some point you start to feel that the curvature of the earth too does not have any effect on the landscape.
... the Roads are straight. The best crow couldn’t fly any straighter. I am not sure they even hired an architect to build it. They got bob the builder and said. "well Bob, you see the crow flying east. Just follow him and build us a road"
... Corn fields. You don’t need a maze to get lost here. Every intersection looks like the last one you went through. There are corn fields as far as your eyes can see. And. If you build the world’s tallest building. From the top of it you would still see corn fields as far as your eyes can see.
... like the sea people riders in Iowa should also be praying to the wind Gods. Boy, cause when they are angry and hit you with a 15 miles/hour head wind. You, learn so much about aerodynamics that a 4 year degree at MIT won’t teach you.
... the terrain is flat. Well, saying the terrain is flat would not be doing justice to the flatness. I The roads are so flat that at some point you start to feel that the curvature of the earth too does not have any effect on the landscape.
... the Roads are straight. The best crow couldn’t fly any straighter. I am not sure they even hired an architect to build it. They got bob the builder and said. "well Bob, you see the crow flying east. Just follow him and build us a road"
... Corn fields. You don’t need a maze to get lost here. Every intersection looks like the last one you went through. There are corn fields as far as your eyes can see. And. If you build the world’s tallest building. From the top of it you would still see corn fields as far as your eyes can see.
... like the sea people riders in Iowa should also be praying to the wind Gods. Boy, cause when they are angry and hit you with a 15 miles/hour head wind. You, learn so much about aerodynamics that a 4 year degree at MIT won’t teach you.
The result of all the above factors is that. When you start
riding you have 15 miles an hour wind blowing in your face, you are in the
middle of what seems like endless ocean of Corn fields and there is a point on
the horizon you are aiming to get too. So you put your head down and start
peddling. Then after an hour when you look up, you see the same corn field you
left an hour ago and you are as much farther from that point on horizon as you
were an hour ago.
But, after few hours your eyes get acclimatized to the
surroundings. And you see that not all corn fields look the same. The wind that
was blowing in your face also sends ripples through the fields making is look
like a big brown ocean. And every so often you come across a big bright red
barn in the midst of brown ocean with the bright blue sky behind it. Iowa is beautiful
and stunningly so.
