Finally get to ride!

Saturday, April 11th, was a great day and we decided to go for a long ride (about 350 miles or so). We went through Winterset, and waved at Jon and Rosalee as we passed their house as they were preparing their camper for a trip south in the next week or so.

We traveled down through St Charles and had lunch at the Welcome Center just off the interstate at Lamoni. They have added on to the center and now have a Maid Rite. It now has Amish style decor including seating that looks like buggy seats and hand made tables. You can see the rings of the wood in each piece.
http://www.traveliowa.com/attractiondetails.aspx?destid=11

We were unable to go check out the Nine Eagles State Park due to road construction and closure.

Watch out as you are riding on the county roads, as the farmers are in the fields and there is mud and rock in the road now.

Just north of Promise City, we saw 2 separate herds of buffalo. It is so cool to watch them graze on the grass that is beginning to green. They are such huge animals.

We rode through the (Town) of Confidence. Not a lot there. It has a nice little park...No gas station though.

We went to Lake Rathbuns' Honey Creek Resort to check it out. It is a very nice place facing the lake. You can reserve rooms, and some of the landscaping is still being completed. There are several "cabins" already up but not completed. They look quite fancy with most having a satelite dish off the roof. There are several more to be built. There were some people out playing golf on the golf course there.
http://honeycreekresort.com/

We went through Moravia past Sundown Lake. More new homes are being built here, Unionville, Drakesville, north of Bloomfield, through Ottumwa, near Eddyville we saw the Elk Farm, Elk meat for sale, then through Oskaloosa, Pella, and Monroe.

In Prairie City, near the Caseys, is a large statue of a Buffalo and info about the
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. http://www.tallgrass.org/
I am not sure we would want to ride motorcycles through the Reserve. We have taken the car through it and it is quite an amazing place if you have not visited there.

We made it back just in time for our Chapter H meeting.

There is so much to see and do in our own state.