“Iowa Is Boring”

It’s not a very big coffee shop, plus, we had the road atlas out. We were asking for it, really. The guy was wearing his bike gear, helmet, jersey,cleats, the whole deal, and he had one of those beards with no mustache, what do you call that?

“The thing to do,” he said, “is to get across it as fast as you can. Don’t be thinking you’ll go take some side route and find something more interesting, because you won’t.”

“Oh, absolutely,” said a guy at a table behind us. “It’s awful. There’s nothing there. Just keep driving.”

Our itineary has us stopping in Sioux Falls and then, at some as of yet unknown point in Central Iowa, our last night before we roll in to Chicago. Where should that unknown point be? What’s out there in the unknown territory of Iowa?