American Discovery Trail: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids

The river that runs through Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the Cedar River, which looks like a pretty good-sized river. It runs into the Iowa River, which then flows to the Mississippi not long after.

At 136,000 people, Cedar Rapids is the second-largest town in Iowa. Over three million people live in Iowa, but I guess they all live in small towns.

Cedar Rapids is the end of a segment of the trail, so 27 down, only 41 to go. This is the farthest north we have been on the American Discovery Trail, though we are only about 200 miles north of our starting point in Delaware, and we will go farther north for one more segment before we reach the northernmost point of the trail.

I have now covered 3,750,000 steps, and if every 250,000 steps could be considered a milestone, I only have 28 more milestones to go.

Last month, I walked a paltry 257,000 steps in 31 days, but this last week I have rededicated myself to getting 10,000 steps minimum each day, and we are moving along at a good pace again. Next week, bridge will interfere, but I will try to work around it.

On the way to Cedar Rapids, the Hoover Library at West Branch, Iowa.

Stone Academy, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1842, in Solon, Iowa.

In keeping with the idea that Iowa is mostly cornfields, an agricultural scene near Ely, Iowa.