Aerial photography, not the disney type either.

Here you can see Hancock county, in Northern Iowa. Off in the distance on the right had side of the picture there is a bit of Crystal Lake I Wind Turbine Farm.

Silos command the landscape in all directions. Here also is Sheri’s gas station, Crystal Lake, IA.

275 odd feet in the air. This was taken while I was perched on top of a clipper wind turbine. If you have ever been to Valley Fair, a theme park, in Minnesota, the “Power Tower” shares the same altitude.

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Mrmmm, Britt, Iowa.

Britt, had a population of around 2000, in 2000. The city is 1.2 square miles in total.

Britt also joins many of us Americans in the shadow (or rather, light) of the great dusklighters of our age by complying with daylight savings time clock manipulation.

Buddy Holly parished just north of Clear Lake Iowa. Had just got performed a concert at The Surf Ballroom, along side Ritchie Valens, and Jiles Perry Richardson know as The Big Bopper.

The plane was headed to Fargo, ND (and soon I will be too (by car)). The plane crashed, all three died along side Roger Peterson, the pilot.

Twelve years later song American Pie aired on radios across the world, it was written by Don Mclean about the fateful evening.

It looks like some sort of alligator/dinosaur fossilized holding a mailbox, neat!

Interesting dinasaour fact: There is no such thing as a brontosaurus, it is actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus. I wonder who is to blame to my un-knowledge of this?

Turns out this is actually false as well! A brontosaurus is actually just a juvinalle form of an apatosaurus, Who Knew?

Stock car races are thought to have been started because of prohibition. Apparently the people moonshining in barns would modify their transport vehicles to out run cops. In their spare time waiting for proper fermentation they got together to see who was fastest. Next thing you know NASCAR (Italics used to emphasize speed).

2.5 Mega Watts, not Giga Watts, sorry Doc.

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Sign for the Men’s bathroom. Men is the irregular plural of “man”