Today I made a stop in Council Bluffs. It's only fitting, considering I just read Sal Paradise's comments about it again last night in a re-read of On the Road. Those of us in the Omaha area refer to it as "Counciltucky," for those wondering what the locals think of the place. I dig Council Bluffs, though. For one, while the cheapest gas in Omaha is $1.65/gallon right now, I found a QuickTrip over on the Iowa side of the border that had it for a buck forty-eight.
Today's great Iowa sighting (besides the usual class-cutters that can be seen starting in mid-September): A rather flabby woman in her mid-fifties wearing a pair of loose (but not loose in the caboose) cotton shorts with "Heartbreaker" stitched across her rear end. It was pretty classy, you know, because it was in cursive lettering.