good morning everybody I think it's worth pointing out that Tama and the
entire state of Iowa really is very proud of their part in the Lincoln
Highway very very proud and say they got a sign up here behind me they've got a
historical plaque talking about the Lincoln Highway bridge constructed in
1915 take a look at this bridge it's really cool look at another Lincoln
Highway marker here yeah this one's a little different look at that the
lettering says Lincoln Highway in the bridge well yeah it says Lincoln Highway
on both sides you're barely gonna get two cars here on this original stretch
too there's a nice little creek running underneath the bridge so now I'm gonna
head over towards Cedar Rapids Iowa east of here and hopefully it doesn't start
raining like there's like a 50% chance we shall see and now we're in the town
of Belle Plaine Iowa at a really old gas station I've been all these metal signs
this is this is Preston's gas station let's see I think this is a yep Lincoln
Highway sign more signs on the backside there
it's a full-service station so they actually service cars in this building
and I'm gonna tell over there as well so definitely full station check this out I
just met Preston's great-great grandson who now owns the property got to talking
with him he's gonna let us look inside he just went to the house to get the
keys nobody has seen the inside of Preston's since 1991 and we're gonna get
to look inside here in a minute so here's the inside guys with all those
oil cans left pretty much the way it was Wow
and that's Preston there on the ramp on the Johnny Carson show yeah and picture
what it looked like in its heyday yeah you have a really nice preserved marker
here Wow Wow it's really neat being in here and of course old Preston had a
recommendation for breakfast here the Lincoln cafe right on the Lincoln
Highway sure try that yeah
now Lincoln cafe established 1928 scrumptious now get back on the road and
head east about got parked here in Cedar Rapids and that new tailpipe that I just
put on well it's off again and I made the mistake of trying to pick it up and
just about burned my entire hand but I don't know what's up with this you see
how high the curve is it's about 20 inches high halfway up the tires well
that means any RV that what a parked here is just going to completely destroy
your side exhaust I'm trying to come up with a better idea that there's just
nothing see the problem is it has to stick out past this it has to that's
it's made to do that so that it doesn't burn your RV but maybe I can get a
custom tip installed that only comes out like a couple inches instead of like
four to six I don't know but I'll go ahead and wait for that to cool down a
little more and I'll reattach it no parking midnight to 6:30 a.m.
the big sculpture there I think it's called the Tree of Life the tree of Iowa
or something it looks very lively and you got the dam
over there man I want to jump in that water so bad though
well not from the bridge but I want to dunk in water huh
little replica of the green lady only it's brown lady
so I mean Marty parked here I'm gonna secure everything up crack couple
windows spend about 20 minutes and just kind of walk around the general area
down here I'm not boondocking in the city I don't even think I would be able
to find a spot so I'm not even gonna try but I can certainly at least look around
a little bit before we get to my my spot for the night wherever that happens to
be as well I'll just move the tailpipe with a towel nobody takes it it'd be
funny though oh no that's probably cooled off by now it's always in the 90s
this early in the Midwest I'll have to turn the generator and the
air-conditioning on for Jackson if I'm gonna spend any more time away from the
RV something quirky behind me though it's the flying weenie with a plane on
top that don't get traffic and I don't know what we'll back on good to go I
have never seen anything like this no you get to Walmart sometimes and it says
no overnight parking I'm not gonna walk over there I'm just sweltering it says
absolutely in the big book big bold letters absolutely no overnight parking
all right the microphone is now plugged into the
camera it's got a lock on the back of the rode videomic but going into the
side of the camera I'm guessing that plug has been out the entire blog maybe
even the last two days I do apologize guys I'm I'm gonna have to keep track on
that cord and make sure it stays plugged in Wow I hope the audio wasn't horrible
because it's all gonna be in camera instead this was just day of deadweight
all day yeah that's inside that's inside the RV
guys you see that over a hundred degrees in side my RV right now
granite I just fired at the generator and the air conditioning like 20 minutes
ago it's gonna take about two hours to get it under 80 degrees in here and then
by that time I'll be able to bump it down to low at least to maintain it
right about eight but you can't you can't I am NOT going to travel around in
an RV that I can't keep under 100 degrees inside
it's just not you know let me go shop I'll leave everything running continuing
to keep this cool when we get back we'll go find a place to legally park the RV
and we'll do indoor stuff for the rest of the day sound good
okay all right do you anything to say hey anything at all dude
there ya go and by the way this body of water here Cedar River here in Cedar
Rapids Iowa really pretty there is so much green in Iowa and lots of water but
it is going 200 percent chance of rain tonight so I don't know if I'll escape
it I tend to not film in the rain so I will probably just take tonight and
tomorrow off and get back with you but I mean we'll see it just depends again I
still haven't found a free campsite but this is a city park with lots of people
just hanging out and no signs have seen no overnight parking I mean I'm
definitely not breaking a posted rule right I just don't know about the
legality this is listed on free campsites dotnet as an okay not approved
not official but an OK spot to spend nice so I'm gonna I'm gonna try it
that's right I got the air-conditioning going you want to watch some Netflix and
chill with the air-conditioning how does that sound
that's my delivery hey you awesome service do it Domino's my favorite
pepperoni bacon sausage yes I'm in a good mood whoo I need a beer and then
yes you you guys have a good day I'll be
okay don't worry about me see in a couple days
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