Northern Iowa travel
February 19th, 2008The northern Iowa Tourism board is trying to increase travel to northern Iowa. It seems that most of the tourism is done on the east side of the state and in the Des Moines area. Those are both large population centers and the board thinks people should see more of rural Iowa. Iowa was built on a rural heritage and the citizens need to learn more about their roots. A wise man once said you can’t where you are going if you haven’t seen where you have been. In that vein it was decided that the northern part of the state is the closest to what Iowa looked like a long time ago than any other part of the state, at least as far as the tall grass prairie that this land started out being. This is the type of land where our forefathers hitched their horses to a plow and started tilling the good earth. They soon found that this land was excellent for growing corn, and why not, corn is actually a grass its self. It is one of the grasses that asperities moisture at a high rate. Actually that is why there is so much humidity in the state, it is all put there by the corn.