19 miles. One final day to finish the journey across Iowa I embarked on over a month before at Montrose on the banks for the Mississippi....

With an early morning fog blanketing the Des Moines River Valley, I returned to 320th Street just south of the Osgood Elevator and headed...

After the rains on Part 3, Day 1, a cool morning and clear skies greeted me on Day 2. I spent the early morning blow drying my shoes in...

Back on the road to finish the walk across Iowa, I picked up at McKnight's Point where weather forced my pervious travels to an early...

The final day of Part 2 started off well enough. With the blistering heat of the previous week still hovering over the upper Midwest...

In an early morning haze I set off across the golf course at Kennedy Park Campground, angling for a north-south gravel road along the Des...

Part 2, Day 7, started and ended at the Fort Dodge Fort Museum and Frontier Village. I headed north from the museum along the river and...

Starting the day at Don Williams Recreation Area, I headed west to catch a gravel road northward toward the small town of Dayton. The...

After a meandering Part 2, Day 4, took me across to the west bank of Des Moines River and Camp Mitigwa, I decided I would stick to the...