Part II - USA. Sunday July 28

Traveling from Columbus Ohio to Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a few stops.

Left early, especially as we wanted to get above some nasty clouds that were coming into Columbus 

We also wanted to be at our first step by 11am.  We were going to the pilot's Mecca : Sporty's pilot shop.   A Fly-In shop in Claremont Ohio (just outside of Cinncinati).     Perfectly timed, we arrived just as they opened, and had some fun shopping for new headsets and sunglasses.  

Insert Sporty pic

As planned, we're airborne again by noon.  Next stop Iowa City in Iowa -- a state neither of us has ever visited.     Along the way, we gained a genuine respect for the farmers of this nation.   All we saw through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois  and Iowa were farms.  As far as we could see!

And as we entered Indiana

And Illinois

And as we are preparing to land in St Paul (sister city to Minneapolis), it is still All farmland, as far as we can see.  I truly have a greater appreciation for the farm goods we enjoy.

And the Missippi River winds by St Paul and Minneapolis.  It is an amazing river.