January 4th - A _ _ _ _ _, Iowa

The first stop on our journey:

* Starts with an A
* Is located in central Iowa
* Was incorporated in 1903

More teaser information and pictures to come!

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Our Photo Illustrating the News!

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Through a random fate of chance, my wife discovered that one of our pictures from these trips has been used by the World News Network to illustrate one of the stories they linked to!

The specific picture in question was of a lion statue in Pleasantville, and accompanied a story from The Times about two lions in the Gaza zoo.



This was a surprise to us as we had not thought about these photos being featured anywhere except Wikipedia, but now I'm a little excited to see where else they are featured!

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March 29th - Madrid, Iowa

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Another Sunday and another Iowa city as we took a tour of Madrid! The second biggest city we have visited so far required a little more time than usual in order to locate everything (some might say due to lack of preparation on my part!) but was still good fun, helped by the much improved weather from Saturday. Items of note included the centennial time capsule buried in front of City Hall (here's hoping I'm still alive in 2083 to see it dug up!), a tribute to the city's coal mining history, and an incredible Hindu temple along Highway 17.

9 shots were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, with three added to the updated article on Wikipedia. Here are a couple of my favorites:







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Madrid, Iowa pictures on Wikimedia Commons
Updated Madrid, Iowa article on Wikipedia
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