It has been a year and then some since the last foray to a state high point. It has been an action-packed year. Our son Turner, who began the high point adventures with me, has gone off to college at Moody Bible Institute. Our daughter has set her sights high for college and has extraordinary accomplishments for her age. I have been to war-torn Ukraine and back; we have hiked in Zion National Park and strolled the shore at Pacific Grove, California. We have been back and forth to Spokane individually and as a family, to California, Oregon, Virginia, and Texas. But not one of us has visited a single state high point. Last summer's bounty was rich: Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana, all in one swoop. Thanks to the demands of a family going in many directions, and a busy summer for all of us, it came to three days and one high point, a foray to Hawkeye Point, Iowa. We invited the daughter of our dear friends, Lorelei Thorne as a guest high-pointer, and she brought much to the team: humor, low-maintenance traveller, and best of all, DJ and singer extraordinaire. We would have great tunes and singing on this road trip.
We were poised to see state high point #25, Hawkeye Point, Iowa.
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