Day 4: Iowa to Colorado

Please see the first post on this trip for important details about this post.

Quite frankly, the only fun thing about driving through Iowa and most of Nebraska is the 75 mph speed limit. Otherwise, the road is generally perfectly straight and surrounded by corn fields. One interesting thing about Iowa, though, is that the price of Plus gasoline (octane 89) is lower than that of Regular (octane 87). Again, nothing exciting happened in Iowa or Nebraska, although we did stop to pick up some Iowa wine on the way (there was a NY times article about it just before the trip). Not worth the price, but decent wine.

Otherwise, we made it into the Rocky mountains, through the Rocky Mountain National Park, and to our hotel on the west side of it. But there were plenty of wide fields along the way.