This morning was a beautiful, partly cloudy day, with a wonderful breeze blowing, so I took my computer outside and sat in the shade and updated the blog, then read for a while. Very relaxing. It wasn't as hot or as humid, so we hung out for the morning. Chatted up some other folks who had just retired recently, and are now doing a similar trip as us. Always interesting to hear about their experiences. Then we noticed a storm front blowing through. It was a huge bank of very dark, very low clouds, slowly passing over the lake area. Strong winds, really neat.
After lunch, we went into the nearby town of Atlantic. On the way there, driving through more farmlands, we noticed many fields of a tall, dark green, grassy plants. Since the breeze was so strong, the grasses were rippling like water in a lake. It looked like fields of dark green water, with waves. Really neat.
Downtown Anita was 1/2 a block long, but Atlantic was an actual town. It even had a Walmart Super Store (ugh). I was able to get the perishable items there, that I couldn't get in Anita. So even though I don't like Walmart in general, I do appreciate being able to find fresh produce and even Synergy and Naked in the middle of Iowa.
The town of Atlantic is supposedly half way between the Atlantic and the Pacific, so when the town was founded, they "flipped a coin, and obviously the Atlantic won". We drove through Atlantic's "Historic downtown" which ended at the old Rock Island Line railroad station, which is now a town hall. I found myself singing the chorus to that old song:
Down the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
The Rock Island Line, it's the road to ride
The Rock Island Line, it's a mighty good road
Well, if you want to ride you gotta ride like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line
On the way back, Peter made me stop at the local Anita water tower, so he could capture an Ingress location. Oh joy. We returned to the State Park, and just enjoyed the locale. After dinner, since it had cooled off a lot, we walked a portion of the paved bike/hiking trail back over to the causeway we had driven to last evening, to again watch the sunset. It was a nice walk, round trip was 1.2 miles. And another beautiful sunset with some incredible cloud formations.
Storm clouds photo:
Anita water tower photo:
Evening hike and sunset over Anita Lake photos:
Beginning of the hiking trail
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