And yet another barn in the middle of corn!This was probably my favorite of all the barns we saw. But not because of the barn itself, it was the American Gothic painting on it. Pretty cool, huh? Just to the side of the barn was a ladder which led Tommy to believe that they are …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Day 2, Part 3 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
This (photo #1 and #2) barn was so cool. It was also quite large. There were several out buildings in close proximity. Some of the barns, such as the one below, were in quite good shape.Then we would see some like the one below which looks like it could fall down at any time. I …
Day 2, Part 2 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
We saw a lot of corn as we crossed Iowa. Some corn fields had barns smack in the middle like these.Hello Handsome! This good looking fellow was in a field next to the Merlin Hulse Barn shown below him. The information we had on this barn was that Clydesdales were housed there. If you click …
Day 2, Part 1 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
After spending a quiet night at the Frontier Inn in Clinton, Iowa, we were looking forward to starting our barn tour. We left the hotel, filled up with gas and hit the road about 6:30 (local time). The first barn we came to we couldn’t get up close to.Some of the barns that we saw …
Day 1 – Highway 30 Barn Tour
Sometime over the winter, in anticipation of our summer trip to Wyoming, Tommy found the Highway 30 Barn Tour which sounded pretty interesting. We are trying more and more to get off the interstates and see rural America. So we planned our route (yep–right straight across Iowa on Highway 30), got directions to the barns …