I live just three hours south of Des Moines, Iowa in the Kansas City area. The trip there is an...

On my recent journeying through Iowa, I departed Ames (blog) and headed north to Mason City. I...

I savored the serenity of the drive up to Ames through the Iowa farming towns. The fields were...

I made the trek to a small lake town in northern Iowa, solely because a friend strongly...

I am familiar with the communes that existed in my home state of California. Many didn't work out...