These country towns are quite quaint compared to our Aussie towns. Well just 5 more hours till we reach Chicago, but the downside is we are now over 2 hours late which means the car company may be closed. Will try to call them once I am in a signal area. Try to keep them open till we get there.

Once we came down out of the Rockies into Denver everything started to change almost instantly. After a peak of around 9,000 ft we came down into Denver at about 5,000 ft. Over night by the time we reached Iowa we had dropped to 2,000 ft. Now into Iowa it sits around 900 ft, so we're closer to the normal altitudes we are used to in Australia. This countryside is much like OZ, undulating pasturelands. The only thing that tells you it ain't OZ is the architecture,...