7 hours of driving and we were in the middle of nowhere. No cell phone reception, no internet, and no tv!  I felt a little panic strike me as the reality of being disconnected from the rest of the world settled in.  We drove out to Atlantic, Iowa to visit Grandma Schrum.  She hadn’t seen our new baby yet, and the last time we saw her was a year ago.  After the first night of going through no phone and no internet… I was ok!  It felt great not to know what was going on with the rest of the world.  Seemed like everything that happened in this little town, happened with special attention, and no distractions.  Everything was so… SIMPLE.

Grandmother Schrum and her Great Grandchildren

On the way to Iowa, we stopped by a Mcdonalds and found this statue of no significance to the restaurant.

I sat outside, and listened to the windchimes blow in the wind for a long while.