Iowa, Iowa, Ioowa, Io-woa-wuh-oh, I, Iiii, Iowa

Ever since we landed, I can't seem to get the Dar Williams song "Iowa" out of my head.

Seems awfully fitting, it does.

It's actually quite beautiful here. The weather is awesome. Warm and sunny during the day, cool at night. Juuuust right.

Today, we spent our first day at the office, carving a space out of the office (trying to do it with the least disruption possible) and it took us quite some time. After getting our spaces and hooked in, we called it a day and headed to a local bar to have a drink and dinner to discuss more. It was a good time, except that we left pretty confused.

By this, I want you to conjure up an image of a veggie burger. What does that look like? A garden or a boca, with lettuce and tomato sandwiched in a roll, right?

Now let me pre-empt this by saying that Jess and Megan are both vegetarians and I'm a carnivore. Hi, we're in Iowa. It's meat country out here. I'm going to eat well. But alas for our vegetarian friends, this isn't friendly country.

So with that image of a veggie burger in your head, I want you to shatter it with this image: a beef burger with tomato and lettuce in a roll. Because that's what a veggie burger is in Iowa.

Yowsa.

And the picture up above is a view from our office as the sun set. Like I said, it's much nicer here than I imagined.