Driftless Area: Travel Slice 3 - Decorah to Cresco

Out of the Crater

Mini zip out of our town to a neighboring one. Leaving the crater once more to check out Teluwut, a restaurant my wife's friend adores.

The Upper Iowa River slithers through pastureland at the edge of town.

Foghorn Leghorn surveying his domain.

The hills are so flat they have mirages.

As you can see, this is how quickly it gets flat when you leave there Driftless Area. The glaciers steamrolled everything to the attenuated topological variation you'd actually expect in the Heartland.

Here's the place for October fun! Hayrides and mini pumpkin artillery, you bet!

A creepy abandoned farm. Looks like the owner must have passed away, no family to take over, and now the property is rented out for people to work the fields.

A little filtering emphasizes the spookiness.

Seriously flat.

A little dairy farm with a lot of character on the way into town.

Very, very flat.

Here we are!

A view into the Cresco's main street, N Elm.

It's basically unchanged from maybe the 20's or 30's. Here's the comparison.

They memorialized the old Texaco station.

When I say big sky, I mean the Sun is BRIGHT.

The theater where my wife's friends are running Mary Poppins.

And here's the Howard County Court House.

Thanks for riding along!

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