Random Thoughts

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Recently there have been tourism ads for Iowa.  Other than one or two people there, I can think of no reason to make Iowa a destination.  They are in the process of ruining The Field of Dreams.  The smell of manure isn't much of a draw for me.  The governor is a MAGA wingnut.  There are no mountains.  There isn't a beach.  I find it hard to name a selling point and I lived there for most of the first 30 years of my life.

Get thee to Okoboji.



(if you've got a Buddy Holly thing you could try Spirit Lake)

People from my hometown went to what they called Campo.  It's where the cool kids whose parents had a little extra money would put a trailer, prefab, or cheap cabin-like structure and they all thought they were movin' on up.  It was on Lake Delhi.  The Campo crap came from Camp of Delhi.  I was there once or twice and unimpressed both times.  Campo was a man made lake and there was a store that sold fuel, ice, bait, and snacks.  Whoopee.  

Some years ago, the dam broke and Campo ended up empty...some of the water went quite a way downstream and actually flooded my first father-in-law's home to the point there was no rebuilding it.

Now that there's water again, it's a thing.  My brother bought a pretty decent place there and then built on turning it into a McMansion.  It's still a bunch of people from my hometown who have an inflated sense of self.  My brother and his wife actually live there year round.  Most of the other consider it their summer home - gag.