Boone & Madrid, IA: Boone County You need a great meal….I mean meals…and you also need a beautiful state park, local wine, premium hotel room, and a place that has more Christmas cheer than Rudolph, Bing Crosby and Clark W. Griswold have combined. We found it and rolled in it like the first snow angel of… Continue reading Stuffing the Stockings & Iowa Feasting: Boone For the Holidays Part 2 of 2
A cheeseburger trip down trip down memory lane! One of the beefiest and juciest blog posts ever sponsored by Linder Tire Service. What a year in traveling for Team Goodvin! We have a lot of great meals with some of the most unique flavors, ingredients, locally raised meat with beautifully mastered cooking skills to get them… Continue reading A Dozen of Our Greatest Road Trip Cheeseburgers in Iowa History
*Our room here was complementary and the opinions expressed on this post are or our own. Burlington, IA: Des Moines County There’s TONS of things to do outside during the winter in Iowa. I happen to be more of a Winter Olympics guy than a Summer Olympics guy myself. However, we all need a break… Continue reading Winter Weekend w/ A Lot of Pzazz
Long Grove, IA: Scott County So much can be experienced in the Quad Cities, but I think its time we start looking at the outskirts a little more. Or maybe A LOT more! This metro area brings in some of Iowa’s biggest numbers when it comes to tourism and one experience here will tell you… Continue reading The Best Between Bread-Iowa’s Sandwich Masters: Locale 58, Long Grove
Sheldon, IA: O’Brien County (Our 66th County) It’s not often when Iowa and Iowa State win on the same day, but we found an entertaining venue to witness it. Iowa cleaned up Illinois at Kinnick for their homecoming match-up, but the Cyclones had the game of the day. Not just for the state of Iowa but a… Continue reading The Best Between Bread-Iowa’s Sandwich Masters: Locale 55, Sheldon
Creston, IA: Union County (Our 65th County) The last days of summer drew Team Goodvin to a region of Iowa we’ve traveled to many-many times before. SW-Iowa has been been a destination for The Iowa Gallivant since our early days of this travel blog and that won’t be changing. Not ever. We write about the splendor of Iowa… Continue reading The Best Between Bread-Iowa’s Sandwich Masters: Locale 51, Creston
Decatur City, IA: Decatur County It’s that old story that you’ve heard so many times before. You see a diner you’re partial to in Ellsworth, Kansas, and you decide to buy it, load it on a huge trailer and reopen it in rural Iowa. Yup….That story was a first for us too. While cruising Route… Continue reading The Best Between Bread-Iowa’s Sandwich Masters: Locale 45, Decatur City
