End of day 2: sunny Iowa!

For lunch on day 2, we stopped at a Golden Corral buffet in Indiana. So much food for only 7.99! They had a chocolate fountain for dessert:

We then headed back to route 80, on our way to Illinois and Iowa! 

Rainy Illinois looked a lot like this :

We even saw a town named princeton : )

And we also saw some wind turbines!

And then we crossed the Mississippi River between IL and Iowa, at the only point where the river flows east-west :

At which point we arrived in Iowa! Iowa gave us a beautiful, sunny afternoon with lots of pretty farms.

Gorgeous blue sky!  For dinner, we ate at the Iowa Machine Shop Restaurant in Des Moines, where I took my pic with a giant corn-on-the-cob:

Tomorrow we finish the western half of Iowa, do all of Nebraska (Omaha, Lincoln and Kearny), and spend the night in Cheyenne, WY.

Fun fact learned today while trying to get a cashier's check for my new apartment: Bank of America has NO locations in Nebraska, Wyoming or Utah. Ugh!