Nothing but me, the road and SILOS

Miles Driven: 104 -  September 6th, 2010 Madison, WI to Effigy Mounds, IW
Total Miles: 1379.7
Camping Fees: $0

As you leave Madison, WI you notice how the landscape changes from urban to rural.  Gone are the strip malls and department stores and enter the farm houses and fields.  Now, I enjoy a nice farm house, but that is all I saw for hours, together with silos, thousands of silos, in all sorts of forms.  Short ones, tall ones, fat ones, thin ones, old ones, new ones, single ones, double ones, triple ones, quadruple ones, painted ones, rusted ones, gray ones, blue ones, granite ones, metal ones, rounded topped ones, flat topped ones, pointed top ones, plant covered ones and ever naked ones.  When multiple silos were together I would shout out “SILO ENVY.”

Silo Envy Dodgeville,  WI

Interlaced with the oodles of silos were the occasional wind turbines. From afar they look small, but as you get closer you can see that they are giant structures.

Wind Turbines Mt Hope, WI

                                                                                                      
I arrived at Effigy Mounds, IA just as the visitor center was closing, 6pm.  I asked about places to camp.  Yellow river was suggested.
 It was rustic camping about 20 miles away in the other opposite direction.  Not in the mood to drive that far of a distance, I asked Penelope to find me the nearest Wal-Mart just down the road in Marquette, IA.

Old Silos and Cow Farm Cobb, WI

The night was warm and a storm was brewing.  There were huge streaks of lighting and big drops of rain which lasted all of ten minutes and then it was over.