So after the race rather than spend another night in Newton I drove about 35 miles West to Des Moines. This is a city which they aren’t really sure why it’s called Des Moines and to be honest after being here I wonder why it’s here at all !
OK, so it was a Sunday late afternoon but the place was deserted. Went for a walk to have a look round and every building seemed to a government, police, sheriff, jail of some sorts ! The only interesting building was the Iowa State Capitol.
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Eventually found some people and had dinner in a micro brewery which was quite nice. Not quite sure about the raspberry beer that I had a pint of though !
Still couldn’t find much the next morning either and even on a Monday morning it was still deserted so jumped in the car and drove 200 miles South to Kansas City, Missouri. Now this is almost the very center of the US and it’s where I have given the car back after about 1,300 miles. So a day and a bit here now and the weather is back to normal with temperatures back up to 95.
