There are probably a couple of people who have logged some miles but not yet reported, but according to all of those that have reported we have gotten ourselves out of Iowa in the first week and a half of 2009. We covered 221 land miles in all (150 biking, 71 running), largely in thanks to Mike Wente (though he characterized it as a "slow" start for him). We have come to a stop in Bethany, MO.
Along the way we passed by Ames, IA, home of the Iowa State University of Science and Technological Arts. ISU boasts such notable alumni as Clifford Berry, co-creator of the first digital electronic computer (Atanasoff-Berry Computer), as well as Ed Droste, co-founder of Hooters. Making our way down I-35 we swung around the Iowa capital, Des Moines. Des Moines is french for "of the moines" (actually means "of the monks," pardon my Farley tribute).
We also passed through Lamoni, IA, home of Graceland college, which is affiliated with the former Church of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ). Lamoni is the name of a pacifist king from the book of Mormon, and it was the home of Joseph Smith III (son of the founder of the Latter Day Saints).
We have also accumulated 16 water miles, enough to get us from Venezuela to Trinidad and back, the first part of our water journey. Trinidad y Tobago is the birthplace of steel-pan drums, calypso, and the limbo. With that little round trip out of the way, we will now head out across the Atlantic.
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