The other version looks much like this but is all gravel. Today, the gravel version went on for over 15 miles. Lots of dust when a vehicle approaches from the opposite direction. But the rail trail was nice when I had the opportunity to ride it. And that’t where I met my newest friends Barb and Ann Rae, at a coffee shop in Reinbeck, IA. Picked up the trail here. Ann Rae said she so loved to ride the trails in Wisconsin and Minnesota with her husband and their friends.
And the farming coops are alive and well, and indispensable in the state.
I will be in Marshaltown tomorrow, a few days away from Nebraska, the halfway point of the route.
Dave goes West 