Winterset, Iowa - here we come! Luckily Patty was feeling pretty good so we headed out Thursday morning for our road trip! We had decided we did NOT want to take the interstate but wanted to do the back highways to get there and see the countryside!! First stop - Denison for our caramel frappes!
Patty had suggested that if there were any "Freedom Rocks" to see along the way, that we stop and see them! Freedom Rocks are large boulders brought usually to a city park (one per county) and you commission a guy to paint it! After Bubba Sorenson painted the first rock, several other counties hired him to paint their rock and it soon caught on to almost every county in Iowa!
Our first rock to see was in Manning - it was set in a lovely park and there's usually a place to read what the rock portrays and a signature book! Very interesting! Most of the rocks have 4 sides painted although I didn't always take a photo of each side! And it was interesting to see the different sizes of the rocks also!
We pulled into Winterset about lunch time and immediately loved this town - the main street is set around a huge square where the court house is - we knew we wanted to eat at the Northside Diner where a scene from the movie "Bridges of Madison County" was filmed so that's where we headed! The food was delicious and I so enjoyed having an Iowa favorite, roast beef sandwich with potatoes and gravy!!
This is the setting in the movie where Clint Eastwood sat on the 2nd stool from the left!
On the napkin holder in front of the stool is a picture from the movie! I think I forgot to mention that Patty and I watched the movie at her house the night before we left to refresh our memories!
Winterset is a beautiful town and we both loved all the hanging flower baskets that were on every street around the square and sometimes down a side street!
After lunch we went to the Chamber of Commerce to get a map of the bridges - the gal there was so nice to visit with us about different things to see and do - they have a nice gift shop too and I was thrilled to buy a bookmark that has the bridges listed on it!
And then we were off for our afternoon adventures............To Be Cont'd
2 comments:
Sounds like such a fun trip!
Those boulders are really cool. I didn't know about that; does Monona County have one?
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