We are taking US-20 across Iowa and Nebraska. US-20 is a lot like an interstate highway except that it is not and is, therefore, a lot calmer and quieter. We are about one quarter of the way across Iowa near Waterloo in a town called Evansdale. We are in the Evansdale city park on the banks of the Cedar River and, with electricity, water and a dump station, we are paying all of $12 tonight – my kind of RV park.

The new exhaust manifold gaskets have quieted the noise and we had a comfortable day and a pretty short one to boot. I discovered that my driver’s side CV boot is leaking from a pretty small hole and hoping I can avoid fixing it until I get home.