Iowa

We're enjoying poking around Iowa...

Sac City has the Guinness World record for the largest popcorn ball...
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Plymouth County
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-Soybeans turning shades of gold in the Loess Hills (hills created of silt by wind, unique in the USA to this area)
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- Scarecrow Festival in Akron







Barn quilts of Plymouth County and Sac County
http://www.barnquilts.com/







Clay County - the World's Greatest County Fair in Spencer, IA --


Where Dahlia's are bigger than your head, 19,000 hard-boiled eggs on a stick are given away, and Trace Adkins plays.

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West Bend, Iowa, population 881
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Grotto of the Redemption
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-Home of one of the greatest collections of rocks, minerals, glass, petrified wood, shells, stalactites and stalagmites in the world. Built by a Catholic priest over his lifetime. Astounding...