NATIONAL IOWA DAY AND OUR BEST PLACES TO VISIT

Hey, it's Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.

We were celebrating National Iowa Day this morning, and we were talking about the coolest places in the state to

visit.

The Ami Settlement, north of Independence.

That might be something people would be interested in.

Oh, yeah.

Tell me about that.

They have bakeries and stores.

You can watch them with their horses and plows.

Experience another way of life.

They don't have electricity.

They're the old

orders.

Yeah, just horse and carriage.

They never drive cars.

they never plug anything in.

Well there's that one thing they do though where they get to go out and experience life and then if they come back they're good forever.

Yeah it's called Rum Springer.

Okay well I learned something today too.

Well I

remember there was a reality show where they followed some of these teenagers around on Rum Springer and it was very interesting.

It was their right of passage.

Most of them do go back.

It's a big consequence for not going back.

Their family thinks of them as being dead.

Right you're not Amish you're not

us.

Chelsea, Iowa.

There's a wonderful bed and breakfast there that is a historic funeral home, do murder mysteries and all kinds of events.

Funerals

and murders and breakfast.

That's right.

The perfect morning.

Yeah, it's a really interesting place.

There's like an actual coffin fire pit on the grounds.

The grill area has a coffin grill.

So yeah, it's a really neat little place.

We get people from all over the country that come.

That's awesome.

Now, is there anybody in the coffins?

Well,

I can't tell you that, you'll have to come visit

us and

see.

It's called Perry Winkle Place Manor.

I love things like that.

Kinda sounds like a horror movie, kind of a place.

It is, but we do music events.

We have out in the coach house in the back where they kept the old horse drawn.

First, we have a stage, and karaoke, and music, and all kinds of stuff, so.

Jeez.

Yeah, we keep people busy for the weekend.

Yeah, sounds like it's never dead there.

No.

Ha ha ha ha.

My color,

yeah.

I'm doing pretty good there, watch out.

What are you doing, man?

What place would you add to the list of cool places in Iowa?

I've always wanted to take you up to Decora and feed you maids pizza and maybe take you for a tour of West Vesterheim, the American Norwegian Museum up there.

Let's

do it, man.

Yeah, well, I mean, no one you want to go, because it gives me an excuse to visit my other daughter up

there.

I don't know, man.

I'm pretty open, really.

I would love to get to meet

DJ that was with Buddy Holly the night before they took off on the plane at the concert.

Oh, that would be great to meet the guy.

Yeah, I think a window on that's limited because when I had a conversation with him, he was on oxygen.

But he did broadcasting on Saturday.

Oh,

well, it'd be cool to meet him.

If he'd be up for it, I'd love to.

Oh, I'm sure he'd be up for it.

I'd love to.

Tell him there's a guy who'd be real excited to meet him and talk to him.

Yeah.

I'll do that, you know, I'll get a hold of him again.

Yeah, that'd be awesome.

So if he'd be up for it sometime, then maybe we could make that day the day to do it.

Awesome.

I would be enamored about, you know, that over time.

I'm down.

I

am down.

Yeah, I'll see what I can do.

Have a great rest of your show,

sir.

Hey, Mike.

Hey, how are you?

Good.

I got somewhere you could hop on over to.

Well, hop is all I do.

Where should we hop to?

Go

to the Amana colonies.

You know, I've been there a bunch of times.

That is a really, really cool place.

Yes,

it is.

They've got different shops and their own wine and beer and chocolate and

ice cream and

sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut?

Yeah, it's a real tempting place to go.

Believe me, I know, I

know.

Yes

Okay Yeah

and Bubba Sorensen who does such a great job with the art on the rocks as well as having history about the art that's on the rock at all the locations So it's a really cool history lesson and the story he's got about being inspired by the movie saving Private Ryan and then thinking about all these great veterans and how can he honor them the idea of springing out of that and how big now

Now it's become.

I mean, it's really rocked into something bigger than he probably ever imagined.

Oh, okay.

I didn't know that.

Okay.

I've

seen a few of them.

I need to see more.

But man, those

are so cool.

I had an uncle who came from the West Coast

and he wanted to see the museum for the Animosa State Penitentiary.

So what's the selling point of going to see the Animosa State Penitentiary?

The history of it that there were different sections built at different times, built by the inmates.

It was very interesting and some of the very high-profile prisoners that have been in and out of there.

Can you name one?

Oh, not right off the top of my head.

I want to say I think John Wayne Gacy was there for a short time.

Well, yeah, I knew it was a tough question to ask at 6.30 a show on a Monday morning, but I thought I'd dry.

And they had the mental health wing, they had the women's side, and it's just one of the most beautiful buildings that you'll ever see built out of the stone.

Sounds pretty interesting.

Very interesting.

Well, it has to be a better place to visit than to become a resident.

One of my favorite spots.

in the state was a canoe trip.

Yeah.

From Kendallville to Decora.

Oh yeah, that had to be great scenery.

Oh, it's beautiful.

Yeah.

Going to fall and all the leaves are changing.

Absolutely.

It's a two-day trip and there's a campground about halfway spending the night and it's just beautiful up there.

It sounds like.

So at any point it never became deliverance.

No, no, no.

Any weird-looking people playing the banjo?

No banjo.

No, I suppose you have to go down south for that kind of thing.

Matt Sticks Marbles in Gladbrook, Iowa.

What?

I didn't quite catch that.

Say that one more time.

Matt Sticks Marbles in Gladbrook, Iowa and West Bend Grotto.

West Bend Girls, what?

Matt Sticks Marbles.

Matt Sticks, like lighting a match.

Matt Sticks,

okay.

Gladbrook.

Okay, now the second thing, all I'm hearing is... In West Bend, Iowa?

The Grotto!

Oh,

West Bend Grotto!

Yeah, the West Bend Grotto is beautiful,

and

that's thick marble.

Yeah.

And Gladbrook is excellent.

Who's talking behind you there?

All my husband can't keep quiet.

He was called!

Because he goes, hey, tell him about the matchsticks!

All right, we'll say hi to your husband for me and thank you guys for calling.

I appreciate it.

Oh, yeah.

The morning is from the North country.

Well, hello there, Mr. North Country, Iowa.

I'll bet you got some spice there in

the North country we should all go and

visit.

I wonder if you go to the Nordic Fest every year.

No, I've never been to the Nordic Fest.

Where is that?

Decora, Decora, Iowa.

Altidote.

Yeah, Nordic Fest, it's the last...

I want to say the last weekend of July.

You know, I'll have to make it here to the Iowa one.

I've been to the North Dakota Nordic Fest, but not to the Iowa one.

That's that's way up north there.

That's all way

up north is right.

Oh, yeah.

Almost near where my family was from from up around Langdon, North Dakota, you

know.

Langdon,

I've been there a

few times Langdon.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's where their family members are up.

Well, I'm

going to have to check out the Iowa Nordic Fest then.

Yeah,

Nordic Fest would be something for you to try in Decora, Iowa.

One of

my favorite spots in the state was a canoe trip.

Yeah?

From Kendallville to Decora.

Oh, yeah, that had to be great scenery.

Oh, it's beautiful.

Yeah.

Going to fall when all the leaves are changing.

Absolutely.

It's a two-day trip, and there's a campground about halfway.

It

sounds like so at any point it never became deliverance Any weird-looking people playing the banjo no banjo no, I suppose you have to go down south for that kind of thing Weekday mornings 5 30 to

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