[speaker001:] I've never been to Iowa what is it like up there
[speaker002:] um well we just moved here and um the only places we've gone to for a short like one day vacation was we went to Lake MacBride which is like two or three miles north of Iowa City and it's like a big park and um there have a they have a beach side and a lake side and so just depending on what type of uh you know water I guess you're used to and I'm used to the beach so we went to the beach side because I'm really from California
[speaker001:] oh is that what you moved from California to Iowa
[speaker002:] well we moved to California and then I uh went to school in Utah and I got married in Utah and then we um lived there for a little while and then we came to Iowa
[speaker001:] what what part of California did you live in
[speaker002:] uh Santa Anna it's near Anaheim Disneyland
[speaker001:] yes I've been I've been to Anaheim
[speaker002:] yeah it's really close to there we see the fireworks from our upstairs window
[speaker001:] yeah I've I've I've been to Disneyland
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and to see the um Queen what is it the Queen Mary at Long Beach and Universal Studios I've been to that part of the world
[speaker002:] uh-huh in Long Beach uh-huh
[speaker001:] I've never been to Utah though what's Utah like
[speaker002:] well Utah actually is um one of the dryer states but it actually has some really nice scenery and um have you heard of Bryce Canyon or Zion National Park
[speaker001:] yes yes that's supposed to be really pretty
[speaker002:] yeah and um they have a lot of good skiing up there and they have um Park City and um what else they have over there I don't really ski but I just have heard that it's really good skiing over there
[speaker001:] have you have you ever been to Texas
[speaker002:] um we went there for a conference we went to we stayed in Houston for a couple days and then we visited a cousin in Dallas just for a day you know and we went to the Southfork Flea Market or the one in Southfork or you know what I mean
[speaker001:] yeah this is this is a big state we've got it differs so much whether you're in the south or north or east or west because it's so huge
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] have you ever done any traveling up the east coast
[speaker002:] um we've only been to the east coast like once
[speaker001:] have you been to New England
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] well New England is really pretty all times of year but even when the leaves aren't growing in the fall it's really pretty in the in the summer time because there's a lot of interesting things up there
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] they've got a lot of historical things a lot of cities that have been around three hundred and fifty years and and um or longer and have a lot of recreation of Colonial items
[speaker002:] yeah I think that would be a neat place to visit because I had a cousin who went to school at at uh Brandeis and he was talking about how it was pretty there and that's where he's wanted to grow um not grow but live there and he live in
[speaker001:] where is this now
[speaker002:] New York um he was going to school in Massachusetts and he wanted to stay on the east coast because of the surroundings and the historical part of it
[speaker001:] oh yeah well I've been to Massachusetts probably good five times up there it's really nice
[speaker002:] oh well that's a place that we have never been to but would like to go to because you know just all the historical things and
[speaker001:] well it'd probably be better in the summer time when it's warm
[speaker002:] oh is it humid there
[speaker001:] um I don't remember it being humid not in the summer anyway
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] the temperatures are mild normally it's in the eighties low eighties
[speaker002:] oh hum um another I guess place to vacation is um we traveled up the California coast and we went and visited Hearst Castle and
[speaker001:] oh I've been to Hearst Castle
[speaker002:] was gonna go in up you know one on one and things like that and it's really pretty up there because you're right on the coast
[speaker001:] I made it as far as Hearst Castle but I didn't go any farther
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] did you go up beyond Hearst Castle
[speaker002:] yeah just a little bit beyond
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and then um we had to take the five the rest of the way up because car trouble but we our destination was Washington and when we got up to Washington we thought it was really pretty because all the trees line the highways and
[speaker001:] did you
[speaker002:] and that's how it is in Oregon too
[speaker001:] did you go through the Redwood Forest
[speaker002:] no we didn't have time but that we've seen pictures of it I think that'd be nice to go there
[speaker001:] huh I've been through there those trees are huge you can drive a car through one of those trees it's so big
[speaker002:] wow that yeah I wish we could go and see that some time
[speaker001:] there's a there's a lot in the area what what else is up in Iowa
[speaker002:] um let's see well close by um Iowa is a place called Nauvoo that's in Illinois and uh Nauvoo
[speaker001:] it's called what now I've heard of that what is that
[speaker002:] that's a city city