Iowa

Decorated blades of Vermeer Mill in Pella, Iowa

Visit the Vermeer Mill in Pella, Iowa

Earlier this summer I ventured south to Pella for the city’s annual Tulip Time celebration, and while we were in town, we decided to take a tour of the Vermeer Mill, the tallest working windmill in the U.S…

Volkswagen Beetle Spider in Avoca, Iowa

Volkswagen Beetle Spider

I make the trip west on I-80 between Des Moines and Omaha pretty frequently for work, but somehow I’d never stopped to see this roadside oddity…

Stalks of grass in front of red painted Hogback Covered Bridge, one of the six remaining Bridges of Madison County near Winterset, Iowa

The Ultimate Guide to the Bridges of Madison County

Before the recent cold snap hit, a friend and I took a trip to Winterset that included—among other stops—a tour of some of the bridges of Madison County. Made famous through Robert James Waller’s novel and the 1995 movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, the covered bridges have become one of Iowa’s notable tourist attractions…