First Time Traveling to Iowa City

[huskers10094]

I am leaving at 6 Am from lincoln tomorrow morning with a couple friends for the game. First time to Iowa City. anyone recommend anything there? Hoping Nebraska can get a big road win. Go Big Red!

[colhusker]

I am leaving at 6 Am from lincoln tomorrow morning with a couple friends for the game. First time to Iowa City. anyone recommend anything there? Hoping Nebraska can get a big road win. Go Big Red!

Full body condem for protection

[The_Vault]

Be as loud as possible!

[tcp]

Canterbury Inn for drinks. It's an old, venerable little pub with some seriously old fashioned concoctions. One of the few places that still makes a Brandy Alexander, for example.

 

Iowa Power and Light Co. for food, assuming it's still open. Back in the day was the best restaurant in town. I'm sure that's probably changed a bit though over the years.

 

Have fun!

 

Forgot to ad, if you're there long enough, you could head to the Amanas and chow down at Ox Yoke Inn.

[Huskerpapa]

They have a pretty cool golf course that they used to use for the Amana Classic.  Other than that, not much.

[cipsucks]

 First time to Iowa City. anyone recommend anything there?

Leaving.      Seriously, I've spent several weeks in the area.  Not a big fan of eastern Iowa.

[jimmykc]

Stop at the Bob Feller museum outside Des Moines and let me know how it is. My wife will never let me stop there on our many trips in that direction. She also won't let me stop at the Spam museum in Austin Minnesota. Too bad you don't have a few of Cip's music mix CD's to pass the time because it is a very boring stretch. Drive carefully and watch the speed limit because the Iowa State Patrol seems to be a diligent group. Oops, I just realize you have already left. Hope you packed your EBay.

[ladyhusker]

Stop at the Bob Feller museum outside Des Moines and let me know how it is. My wife will never let me stop there on our many trips in that direction. She also won't let me stop at the Spam museum in Austin Minnesota. Too bad you don't have a few of Cip's music mix CD's to pass the time because it is a very boring stretch. Drive carefully and watch the speed limit because the Iowa State Patrol seems to be a diligent group. Oops, I just realize you have already left. Hope you packed your EBay.

In fact, the fiance has been there...it's a little house with some random memorabilia and a strange old dude who mans it. Said he was the first one to stop in like a week. Fiance picked up a few souvenirs and crossed it off the "super random stuff I did while living in the midwest that makes me think the woman I'm marrying is crazy for loving it here" list. (To be fair, creating a Bob Feller museum in a tiny house in the middle of nowhere doesn't really rank all that high on his list of weird things midwesterners have done.)

[jimmykc]

No, I was not the guy running the place. Maybe it was the ghost of Bob himself since he passed away last year.. If the fiance wants an even more remote and random place to visit, have him go to Muscotah, Kansas,if he can find that little hole in the road. There they are trying to construct a museum dedicated to Joe Tinker, the old Chicago Cubs second baseman, which will be made out of the top of their old water tower. Judging from my look at the town, you'll be lucky if he ever makes it back though. ( I am not making this up)