I spent a week in beautiful Des Moines, IA. We took a twenty-six mile side trip to Perry to see Henry Nelson’s amazing electric machine. The cabinetry is a work of art. Unfortunately no one knows how the machine produces electricity. Henry Nelson died unexpectedly before unveiling his invention. Currently, the current does not flow. While at the museum, we asked for recommendation about a place to eat in town. We were given a few, but chose Carla’s Cafe. It consisted of a dining counter with a few booths and tables. The cook was in the middle of it all and continually chatted with the customers. Both the food and the atmosphere were a delightful experience.
Directly outside of DeMoines there is a living history farm and town. Three working farms show life in the 1700, 1800s, and early 1900s. The 1700 farm shows how the Ioway people lived and what crops they grew. Their wigwams were covered with layers of thatch, keeping the interior temperatures at a comfortable 50ยบ F even during the coldest winter night. The 1800 farm demonstrated the pioneers who settled Iowa. They had planned to live in their log cabin houses for only a few years, but many extended their stay.
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Des Moines, Iowa is the town that everyone knows about and remembers because it not only hosts the Iowa State Fair but it’s the state capital as well. We’ve all learnt the name in grade school. The fair is an eleven day event held every year in the fall. Some of its more common popular attractions include the Butter Cow, a Double Ferris Wheel and the Fairgrounds Grandstand which is host to popular singers and musicians on a nightly basis during the fair.
The Corn Dog Kickoff is a lively auction event held each year where visitors can do some light food grazing while bidding on silent and live auction packages. The proceeds of the auction all go to helping restore the fairgrounds so visitors can eat, bid and relax knowing that their helping the fair.
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With the price of tuition rising steadily around the United States year after year, students may want to be more cautious about where they are moving to. Students face a variety of costs of living, including accommodation, food, household bills, clothes, travel, socializing, leisure and sport, and study costs such as books, materials, and field trips for courses of study. Moving to a low-cost area could make a huge difference in the amount of loan money a student has to pay back 10, 20, and even 30 years after they finish their degree.
I was lucky. My father paid my college tuition, which was quite expensive the year I went out of state to the University of Delaware. I didn’t think about money at that time; my parents had just always paid for all the big things–school, car, rent, clothing. I paid for some things, but I never took my education seriously until I went to graduate school and paid for it myself. It was during the planning phase for graduate school that I realized life was going to become a heck of a lot more expensive and that I was going to have to borrow more money than I had ever earned in one year. So, rather than choose a college based on its reputation or alleged high quality of education, I chose a college that I could get into quickly, where I could learn what I needed to know, and where the overall cost wasn’t going to keep me in deep, dark debt forever. I went to Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Luckily I found low prices and excellent teachers who taught me what I needed to know.
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