Corn!

Our drive to the midwest started with an exciting start in the mountains.  An hour from home our van, fully loaded with everything including the kitchen sink, started sputtering.  Finally, on a long uphill it just cut out.  I was able to get it restarted and we started back up the hill.  Sputter - die.  I hit the next exit and the car ran great on flat ground. We decided to head home and take the other car on vacation.  This wasn't in the plans.

Heading back down the mountains, the van ran great.  We spent the night at home and decided to leave early the next morning.  Cari played a game of Tetris and fit all of our luggage into the smaller space.

The next day we started out toward Illinois without incident.  After we were about half way there the scenery changed.  Gone were the mountains, gone were the falling rock, gone were the trees.  We were now in CORN country.

Mile after mile we watched corn grow.  Then, suddenly, something exciting happened.  A field of soy beans!  Wait! What's that up ahead?  Oh, it's more corn.

We finally became delirious from corn and we started voting on our favorite corn fields.  "OH! Look at that corn.  It's at least 6" taller than what we saw earlier!"

As we neared our destination we found something different to look at.  On the horizon we saw the spinning towers of a large wind farm.  The giant white towers were gently spinning their blades in the distant.  

Maybe they were helping the corn grow.