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First big drive with Mac! 🏷️26.06A

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Angles 🏷️26.06A

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This place had (new) shag carpeting tacked to the wall. 🏷️26.06A

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Green Cheek Beer 🏷️26.06A

A gray building features a large glass door and a sign for Green Cheek Beer Co. under bright sunlight, with designated accessible parking spaces nearby.

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This rug really ties the whole room together. 🏷️26.06A

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Did some minor surgery to our new Grand Highlander to add a custom phone mount. It was both easy and terrifying to do.

A person is installing or removing a car's dashboard display and control panel.A magnetic phone holder is attached to the dashboard of a car near the control panel.

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I posted a hastily-shot video of the emergency gear I kept in the spare tire area of my Subaru Outback, in case it’s helpful for anyone else. I didn’t think to record the other things that we kept stashed around the vehicle but maybe I’ll do that once we get the Grand Highlander dialed in.

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Straight outta Monty Python 🏷️26.05A

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Watch out for Frank, he’s a bit of an ass. 🏷️26.05A

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We made it to Grinnell, but missed out on JB’s gravesite, as the cemetery was closed. But we did find the memorial plaque near his old home. 🏷️26.05A

A commemorative plaque on a stone is dedicated to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, the founder of the city, placed in 1916 by the D.A.R.

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Merchants National Bank 🏷️26.05A

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We found Radar from MASH in Ottumwa. 🏷️26.05A

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American Gothic 🏷️26.05A

A quaint, small house with a steep Gothic-style gable roof and surrounding green lawn is set amidst trees and a cloudy sky. This is the inspiration for the background of the American Gothic painting.Two people pose humorously with statue replicas of the iconic American Gothic painting in front of the American Gothic House Center.

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The easiest, most instantly useful improvement nearly any hotel can make is to add a simple elevator sign to hallways. There’s no reason to make every guest scan both ways trying to descern if there’s an extra gap somewhere between the doors or remember which way they approached their rooms from.

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We paid homage to Aldo Leopold today, visiting his gravesite and birthplace/boyhood homes. 🏷️26.05A

A stone grave marker is engraved with the name Aldo Leopold and the years 1887 - 1948, accompanied by a small stone and a dried flower on top.

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Dave has gone missing.

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We were a bit disappointed at the rock art we found at Thousand Hills State Park in Missouri, which were rather minor petroglyphs fully enclosed in a structure. I guess we’re just too spoiled by the Southwest… 🏷️26.05A

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Stopped by the birthplace of labor legend John L Lewis, though missed touring the museum, which was already closed for the day. 🏷️26.05A

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Independence,Missouri is home to three National Historic Trails. We followed a chunk of the Santa Fe Trail today. 🏷️26.05A

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The most important stop of the day was the Harry S Truman National Historic Site, the primary target of the entire trip. It’s been an orphaned National Park unit for Jen for years, so it was good to finally get it done. We also stopped at his nearby boyhood home. 🏷️26.05A