Dec 18th, 2008 at 2:30PM: It is cold outside. Very, very cold. This time of year road crews in the many parts of the country are working overtime to keep the ice and slush to a minimum, and that involves dropping massive amounts of salt on the asphalt. If you live in the Des Moines suburb Ankeny you may have noticed a slightly more aromatic salt concoction being deposited. When local spice manufacturer Tones tried to ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Iowa road workers hungry after dropping garlic salt on their roads
Dec 18th, 2008 at 2:30PM: It is cold outside. Very, very cold. This time of year road crews in the many parts of the country are working overtime to keep the ice and slush to a minimum, and that involves dropping massive amounts of salt on the asphalt. If you live in the Des Moines suburb Ankeny you may have noticed a slightly more aromatic salt concoction being deposited. When local spice manufacturer Tones tried to ...A Summer project to celebrate where you live
Personal jouney: Growing up in 2 countries, 7 states
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:00AM: For the first six years of my life, I was a rather normal kid, aside from the fact I still slept with my mom (back then, the Chinese frowned upon niceties like extra beds), and before every hot meal, I fetched from downstairs the bricks of coal needed to heat the stove. Then, on my sixth birthday, mom said the Americans would finally let us come live with dad, who was studying at Texas Tech in ...Shake it up at Iowa's salt and pepper museum
Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:35AM: Traer, Iowa, wants its share of the state's tourism income. The only problem? The central town doesn't have any sights to draw tourists. But never mind that because residents have decided to create their own attraction. The city approved a $12,500 (collected in sales tax) purchase of 14,400 pairs of salt and pepper shakers. The shakers were assembled by resident Ruth Rasmussen, who's been ...Fall Leaf Peeping by Rail
Sep 13th, 2007 at 10:00PM: The leaves haven't started to change in Columbus, Ohio-- yet, but they will--soon. This morning the air was crisp and cool. Yep, leaf changing conditions are here, and I expect edges of red will appear in a couple of weeks until eventually there will be bursts of color everywhere. If you are interested in optimum leaf peeping, plan a bit a head. Instead of taking a driving trip for fall splendor ...Grain Silos As Ice Climbing Walls
Mar 13th, 2007 at 7:01AM: If you want to practice your ice climbing skills, strap on your crampons and head to Iowa. Although Iowa does boast Hawkeye Point -- towering over the rest of the State at a mighty 1670 feet -- the farming state is relatively flat. So what are people climbing? The only tall, vertical faces in Cedar Falls: grain silos. Each winter a local man, Don Briggs -- a physical education instructor at the ...Detour Worth Making: The Crookedest Street in the World
Mar 5th, 2007 at 1:27PM: San Francisco's Lombard Street is widely thought to be the World's Crookedest Street. But did you know that Burlington, Iowa's "Snake Alley" was officially named by Ripley's Believe It or Not? as the "Crookedest Street in the World"?
Built in 1894, Snake Alley was conceived as a "more direct link" between Burlington's business and shopping districts. Working together, three public-spirited ...Ice Cream Capital of the World
Oct 9th, 2006 at 11:24AM: One of the joys of a well constructed road trip is that it isn't as well constructed as you would have liked to it to have been, but it is here where fluke accidents occur. Some may call it a glitch in the matrix, but I say it is ice cream heaven on Earth. We didn't anticipate going there because we never knew of its existence, but along a long stretch of Iowa highway rests a small quiet kind ...America's Cleanest & Greenest Cities
Apr 6th, 2006 at 2:21PM: The Ames-Boone area
of Iowa normally doesn't get mentioned around here too much, but it's time to turn things around or our travel
destinations at least. Forbes.com runs an
interesting health piece which highlights America's greenest and
cleanest cities. The listing is based on ozone pollution and particles from data collected by the American Lung
Association's 2005 set of statistics and according ...
