Western Iowa 2010

Getting out of the house

One late summer Saturday in 2010 we decided we needed to get out of the house. Julie reached out to her parents and the four of us spent the day visiting a few unique sites in west central Iowa. Our first stop was at The Freedom Rock in Adair County. This was the original work by Ray "Bubba" Sorenson II which he repaints with new images every year for Memorial Day. The paintings always honor veterans and rocks now exist in every county in Iowa. We traveled a little farther west to see the site of the first train robbery "in the west." We then headed a little northwest to the city of Elk Horn, Iowa, where many Danish immigrants settled. We visited a museum associated with a traditional Danish Windmill originally built in 1848. Our final stop was farther north at the city of Audubon.