Fairly early sounds good. I'm still asking around about the best fireworks locally. The route is mainly on the smaller roads. I'm aiming to stay away from the heavily travelled roads as much as reasonably possible and go through the hilly (and hopefully fairly twisty) parts of NE Iowa and SE Minnesota.


We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.