Into Iowa

We've had some good days the past little while. We had our first 100 mile day and spent the night on a nice farm where the lady that lived there brought out some pancakes and apple juice for breakfast. Yesterday we left the wonderful state of Nebraska and crossed the Missouri River over to Iowa. We had spent a day and a half in Omaha; it's been the largest city we've been in on our trip and was a bit overwhelming. There were so many strip malls and restaurants. We took our bikes over to Olympia Cycle to get them tuned up and spent the day on public transportation and got to see some of downtown and went up to the Mormon Trail visitor's center. Our bikes felt so good after getting our tune up, and now we're ready to ride another 1300 or so miles! The humidity has been getting stronger the past couple of days. We rode into Glenwood Iowa last night, which is a pleasant town, and went to church there this morning. We met some more nice folks there that invited us over for dinner and a place to stay, which sure beats where we were camped out this morning. We woke up around 7 and then shortly after that a thunderstorm rolled through and was shaking our tent violently and then the ground around us became saturated and there was an inch or two of water underneath us. Luckily it didn't really seep through and it stopped and the sun came out so everything is dry and we didn't get blown away. Anyways, we're going to try to get through Iowa in four days. Hopefully we won't be slowed down by any flooding or inclement weather.