It’s a beautiful day and we can see the lights of home: more than half way. Quick breakfast with a very hip looking crowd in the Deco hotel, then pack the car, trunk lid behaving and off we go under the instructions of Ms Waze: but then Waze waivered – directing us to Des Moines, she suddenly changed her mind and instructed us to divert to KC at a fork. We surrendered. Diversion, circling and recalibration but not before taking us through some stunning bridge sculpture: she didn’t apologize.
Crossing into Iowa, our 10th state, we find corn as high as an Elephants eye, crop dusters and quilts and in a sea of contrasts, the birthplaces of Woody Guthrie and John Wayne: something for everyone.
This is the heartland. Amidst the bounty of plenty we find windmills, iconic sculptors of change. The boys approve.
Van is singing Brown Eyed Girl that makes me sad and happy. Then we divert – one for Anders and Lone.
Elk Horn Iowa, capital of Danish America and another windmill , this one (1848)) moved from Norre Snede in 1975!
Here we meet Julie and Lisa who tell us the Danes came to farm in the later 1800s and then as emigrants do, brought the rellies, farmed the land and made it bloom in the vast emptiness of middle America. Plenty of room and work to do for plenty more.
The windmill reconstruction is a work in progress: donate at danishwindmill.com
Meantime, as we get walls and travel bans rather than clean energy and grinding grain, I’ll leave the commitments 
to Bono and the boys from DNS ( work that one out).
Sorry just saw that this doesn’t show ( editing in McDonalds). It’s a COEXIST sticker from U2.
The north side
Knew you would😎
I know Denmark provides the world with some spectacular Beer !!,
I am not sure they Bottle any outstanding wines , do they ?
They are selling it but we resisted the temptation in favor if Barolo
Have you lost faith with Waze yet , you must be getting close
The lack of traffic in Omaha temporarily confused her
I am not quite sure what Ian purchase in a McDonald’s . Maybe a coffee
Fries and Fish o Fil – carefully disguised to not taste of fish
Did you purchase any goodies at The Windmill , I thought you both would look good in the Golf Hat
Dolls
Is the lodging in the Windmill?
Only for Danes
“Two souls too smart to be
In the realm of certainty“
I was speeding on the subway through the stations of the cross
The joys of traveling with U2!