Going through Iowa

The car that we drove on the trip.	The first night, we stayed in a wonderful hotel, "AmericInn". This beautiful quilt was hanging in the hall.	The hall was so nice - lots of wood, fire place and Christmas tree.	Then we were on the road again. One long, long road (Highway 86) going west.
Lots of huge fields in Iowa!	It is really a fantastic landscape - SO flat. Except for small wet spots like this one.	We could see for miles and miles. Here we spotted a small village.	Cold and windy gas station
Every time we came to a village they had a different way of decorating the lamp posts for Christmas.	One village.	The road is still going straight west!!	Every now and again we would pass a farm like this one.
Somebody carved this eagle out of the dead tree trunk.	Cows enjoying the sun and the left over corn in the field.	We saw a sign on the highway and thought we would like a closer look at this Danish museum.	Jeff in fron of museum at the Danish mail box
Inside the museum. They had a lot of old Danish stuff, that the emigrants brought or had sent over. The row of platters are from The Royal Danish porcelain factory.	Pictures of some of the old Danish buildings like a church and a school.	Somebody made this map of Debmark out of Danish stamps.	Picture of Scandinavian wood choppers.
Jeff in the small shop where they sold Danish paper cuttings and Christmas mobiles and ornaments.	DAnish woven hearts. They are a "must" for a Danish Christmas.	After the museum, we went to the Danish Inn and had a Danish Christmas Buffet.	Inside was decorated with Danish Christmas decorations like this old "Nisse".
These goats made of straw, one can find underneeth the Christmas tree.	In the village was also a genuine, old Danish windmill		As we got closer to Nebraska, we drove along these "Bluffs" for some time.
Jeff had a hard time explaining why they are called "Bluffs".	We also passed this place full of brand new semi trucks.

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