We left California to spend a few days driving to Chicago to meet up with friends there. There is a lot of wide open country in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Nebraska, and we enjoyed watching the scenery change as we drove east and seeing the small towns in what some people call “fly-over country.” Carrie noticed lots of deer in the cow pastures in Wyoming. Charlie: “It’s where the deer and the antelope play.” We never grow tired of driving cross-country and seeing the variety in our vast nation.
We spent a day in Des Moines, Iowa, visiting with Carrie’s stepbrother, Theo, and some of his extended family there. Theo moved to Des Moines from California over a year ago and we wanted to see his new town. Des Moines seems to be a very livable city and it has a lot to offer. Theo took us to the Des Moines Botanical Garden and to a downtown t-shirt shop that had lots of hilarious and irreverent shirts.
