19 miles. One final day to finish the journey across Iowa I embarked on over a month before at Montrose on the banks for the Mississippi....

With an early morning fog blanketing the Des Moines River Valley, I returned to 320th Street just south of the Osgood Elevator and headed...

After the rains on Part 3, Day 1, a cool morning and clear skies greeted me on Day 2. I spent the early morning blow drying my shoes in...

Back on the road to finish the walk across Iowa, I picked up at McKnight's Point where weather forced my pervious travels to an early...

The final day of Part 2 started off well enough. With the blistering heat of the previous week still hovering over the upper Midwest...

In an early morning haze I set off across the golf course at Kennedy Park Campground, angling for a north-south gravel road along the Des...

Part 2, Day 7, started and ended at the Fort Dodge Fort Museum and Frontier Village. I headed north from the museum along the river and...

Starting the day at Don Williams Recreation Area, I headed west to catch a gravel road northward toward the small town of Dayton. The...

After a meandering Part 2, Day 4, took me across to the west bank of Des Moines River and Camp Mitigwa, I decided I would stick to the...

Picking up the walk across Iowa to follow the 1835 Dragoons at Big Creek State Park, I headed north in the early morning toward Boone...

Embarking from the site of Second Fort Des Moines, I crossed over the river to the (north) east bank and made my way toward the Greater...

Continuing the walk across Iowa from the previous day's stopping point at Yellow Banks Park (for more on Yellow Banks Park, see Part 2,...

After a brief respite, the journey to follow the 1835 Iowa Dragoons Expedition got back underway on June 3, 2021, at Neal Smith National...

Day 8 of Part 1 brought me to the Horn's Ferry Half-Bridge below the Red Rock Dam, the intended end point of the first part of my attempt...

Day 7 of my 2021 attempt to walk across Iowa in the footsteps of the Iowa Dragoons of 1835 proved a relatively uneventful day. During the...

Starting from the Hotel Ottumwa just north of the Des Moines River on Part 1, Day 6, I crossed over one of the many bridges connecting...

Following the Des Moines River from Eldon to Ottumwa might have limited mileage on Part 1, Day 5, however, I decided early in the...

During the planning stages of my walk across Iowa, I thought the house from Grant Wood's famous painting American Gothic would dominate...

Day 3 started early and relatively uneventfully at Bentonsport (for more on Bentonsport, please visit the Day 2 post:...

To start the second day of my journey, I disembarked from Farmington across the bridge to Eagle Avenue. Looking ahead at routes for the...