One of the greatest skydiving boogies in the Midwest is about to invade the Fort Dodge Airport, and Live Action Sports will be there. Will you? Read the rest of this entry »
Crashing Couchfreaks 2010
August 24th, 2010Effigy Mounds, Harper’s Ferry
August 10th, 2010
Effigy Mounds
Did you know Iowa is home to a National Monument? I didn’t. I knew it was a park where you can hike trails but until I made a point to learn about it further did I realize it’s an incredible historical amazement. It deserves a plethora of describing words that I can hardly narrow down. Remarkable. Glorious. Astounding. To sum up without too much of a history lesson, Native Americans from the time period 1000 BC (YES I SAID BC) to 1200 AD built earthen mounds for ceremonial and sometimes burial purposes. Four types of mounds were built, conical (round), linear (elongated round), and compound (a combo of conical and linear), and lastly the effigy (animal shaped). Dudes, what the heck. Amazing. Read the rest of this entry »
Spook Cave, McGregor
July 14th, 2010Caves have intrigued me since seeing the movie “The Descent” a few years ago. Minus the murderous humanoid creatures, I was equal parts fascinated and creeped out by the idea of walking, crawling, climbing or wading through underground caverns built by nature over a ridiculous amount of centuries, in what would basically be complete darkness. It’s primal. It’s raw. It’s scary. Read the rest of this entry »
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