Iowa - Illinois - Running for Office

To successfully win the Iowa Caucus a candidate needs to get groups to vote in support.  To successfully cross the Iowa - Illinois border, a single runner can take the Julien Dubuque Bridge as it crosses the Mississippi River, joining the cities of Dubuque, Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois. The bridge is safe enough but access to the pedestrian portion requires crossing 6 traffic flows (outbound for me!) or knowledge of a shortcut under the bridge to downtown sidewalks (inbound for me!)

East Dubuque, Illinois

The pedestrian section of a bridge as an afterthought?

Bernie Sander's office in Dubuque Iowa

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Iowa - Wisconsin - Running like 007 - Or Living Dangerously

Running bridges without a pedestrian section is always interesting (read living dangerously). I had seen this bridge on a Google images search. I had looked at it on Google satellite. I had called 2 Dubuque bike shops & talked about it. I had traded messages with a helpful local running club president. But until you get there, it is just hard to know exactly what you will find - and how that will make you feel. And so it was today as I looked ahead on the bridge and saw that some sort of road construction was underway and that the 2 lane speedway was merging into a single lane. But the orange cones merely blocked off a lane & I interpreted that to mean that they had reserved the lane for my running needs. That made it a lot more fun. But I do still tend to have faster splits on roads like this!

Roadwork on Iowa - Wisconsin Bridge

Me standing on a post at Iowa Wisconsin border sign

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Iowa - Missouri - I called Shotgun

Iowa - Missouri State line run near Hamburg, Iowa. There was a blank street sign for Iowa. Maybe they will name the street after me?  The 265th Ave. sign was full of holes from a shotgun.

Iowa - Nebraska - $10 Million State Line

Council Bluffs, Iowa - Omaha, Nebraska State Line Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge in Omaha.


Iowa - Nebraska State Line

Iowa - Nebraska State Line

Iowa - South Dakota - Titular Protagonist State Line

FYI - Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha. Wikipedia

Not Longfellow but I am in Minnehaha

Iowa - South Dakota State Line


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Iowa - Minnesota - Weekend at the Lake State Line

Iowa- Minnesota State Line - Headed back from Okoboji Lake in northwest Iowa on June 16, 2012.