We were driving hour after hour on rural state road 9 through Iowa. It was fairly boring. Endless corn fields checkered with endless wheat fields. An hour of flat fields, followed by an hour of rolling fields. The only break was an occasional grain elevator. How boring.
Curious, I ran a Google Maps search on "museum" To my great surprise, it said 5 miles to Great Lakes Maritime Museum. Huh? That was a surprise. So we went there. Who could resist. What we found was an area with five lakes, resorts, restaurants, marinas, thousands of boats, an amusement park, and the museum. It turns out that Lake Okoboji areas are called The Iowa Great Lakes.
Now it all makes sense. Those farmers would be just as bored as we were. A change of scenery and a change of pace would be very successful in tat location. Apparently, Lake Okoboji has been successful for more that 100 years and continues to be so. More power to them.
p.s. We camped last night in Fort Defiance State Park. It was so buggy and so poorly maintained tht it was awful. To escape the campground in the evening, we went to a movie. No more Iowa state parks.
p.p.s. The corn in the fields is only 3-4 inches high. I expect it to be waist high by this date, or as eye as an elephant's eye by the Fourth of July (in Oklahoma). We're the planting s extra late this year? Do they get two crops per year?
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