Day 4, 5 - Winterset, IA and Urbandale, IA
We have driven by Winterset many times, but never stopped here. This time we
got off I-80 at Omaha and drove across western Iowa on Hwy. 92. Iowa may sometimes get a bad rap as being nothing but corn. Yes, there is corn, but the hilly country is a weave of trees, green grasses, crop fields plowed to the contour of the land, small irrigation channels, streams and lots of wildlife.
We stayed in the Winterset City Park Campground – perfectly manicured grass, full hook-ups (which we love!) and lovely trees. We finally had a chance to visit three of the Bridges of Madison County which we had always wanted to see. They all look pretty much like the one pictured here.
At 1:30 a.m. the next morning the warning bell sounded on the refrigerator – a malfunction of the controls. Great! What were we going to do with no refrigerator?! Gary made a p
hone call or two and found a repair place in Urbandale, IA (just west of Des Moines and just a few miles north of Winterset). The guy really knew his stuff because he was able to do a reset on the control (which we didn’t know how to do), and he had us switch from electric to LP gas for the cooling. So far, it is working fine, and we have some time to research what is wrong – Gary suspects it is the AC cooling mechanism, not the control circuit board. The repair “facility” that was our salvation is pictured here.
got off I-80 at Omaha and drove across western Iowa on Hwy. 92. Iowa may sometimes get a bad rap as being nothing but corn. Yes, there is corn, but the hilly country is a weave of trees, green grasses, crop fields plowed to the contour of the land, small irrigation channels, streams and lots of wildlife.We stayed in the Winterset City Park Campground – perfectly manicured grass, full hook-ups (which we love!) and lovely trees. We finally had a chance to visit three of the Bridges of Madison County which we had always wanted to see. They all look pretty much like the one pictured here.
At 1:30 a.m. the next morning the warning bell sounded on the refrigerator – a malfunction of the controls. Great! What were we going to do with no refrigerator?! Gary made a p
hone call or two and found a repair place in Urbandale, IA (just west of Des Moines and just a few miles north of Winterset). The guy really knew his stuff because he was able to do a reset on the control (which we didn’t know how to do), and he had us switch from electric to LP gas for the cooling. So far, it is working fine, and we have some time to research what is wrong – Gary suspects it is the AC cooling mechanism, not the control circuit board. The repair “facility” that was our salvation is pictured here.
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