I've now made it to the ultimate location of my exile, Shenandoah, Iowa. I just got online today, I've been here about 2 weeks and I only had limited access to the Mid-west internets. I'm planning on making up for lost time, so I'll be posting a lot more. I'm sorry to have been gone for so long, I appreciate all the people that have been writing wanting me to post, I like that people miss the Underachiever's Progress as much as I do when I can't post. I'm definitely fired up about a couple things and will get to that soon. But first,
Interesting things about my Iowa experience:
1. The house I'm living in was built as a jail as I had previously posted, but I don't think Shenandoah had ever had much of a crime problem so it only had a couple of cells.
2.Shenandoah is about as aggressively Mid-Western as you can get. People are extremely nice here and always say hello when you pass, one of the things I missed about where I grew up. Here it's much more sincere, though. If a movie location scout needed a good farmhouse to shoot, you can go literally anywhere around here. There's nary a rolling hill that doesn't have a silo and a modest 2-story farm house springing out of it with the perfect number of cows mulling around the barn.
3. It's the little things. There is a Walmart, a McDonalds and a Burger King in Shenandoah, there is no other chain that I have ever heard of (oops sorry, there's also a Curves, believe it or don't) there or anywhere close. Instead of Papa John's Pizza, there's Godfather's. There's no Blockbuster, but there's a Movie Gallery. No Safeway or Giant, there's HyVee and Fareway. Instead of 7-11, there's Casey's and the unfortunately named Kum and Go.
4. I've been playing a lot of golf and have the brutal sunburn on my neck to prove it. I shot a 62 in 9 holes yesterday and I understand that's pretty good for a beginner.
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