Date: June 22, 1927           Weather: warm  Thru sun and showers
Place Mt Vernon, Iowa             From Rockford, Ill.  10:10
          Cornell College     207 miles
Via Detours, muddy roads, showers

Impressions:We started from Blackhawk Park at 10:10 this morning and had fine weather and roads until passing Clinton. We passed through several showers but always passed into sunlight again. Iowa is just a flat muddy country filled with farms and animals and young corn fields. We never saw so many hogs and fat cattle as we have here. The corn is about five inches tall and everywhere farmers are cultivating it. Tonight we are camping on the campus of Cornell. The ride was hard and slow because of the roads and we are tired.

 
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