I'm in Iowa City area at relatives this week and to DSM by end of next week. There are a few trees with fall color...looking really odd in the 85 degree heat! Due to cool way off in a couple of days.
Added Virginia, W Virginia, and Kentucky to my map on the trip west.
Planned to use the dotted line roads through the Appalachian mts. Reality soon intruded!
I entered at Harpers ferry and went west on US 50 acoss the grain. cresting the "hills at 30 mph with 15+ cars behind me soon cured me of that plan, so I turned south on WV220 along a valley. Very scenic but the lane was narrower than my rig. I was very happy to turn west on WV55 a quasi-freeway with easy grades. But it quit in a chaos of construction and I had to use ordinary roads the rest of the way to I-79 and the capitol of Charleston where I could overnight at a Walmart. The higher elevations had some very good fall color in about 5-10% of the trees.
Finally broke out of the green tunnel effect near Lexington and the big rich horse farms. After that it was smooth sailing into Iowa.
Enjoy the rels in Iowa City and say hi to Jeanette for us. This is our second summer away from Iowa, and I miss it. Good people and good places. 
