Things got better:
FREE SHOWERS!
As we traveled eastward, the price for showers got cheaper. Of course we never bought into this scam, but we are happy to be clean and ready for our trip home! We drove from Dubuque to Grand Island and stayed the night; note: The Accordion Jamboree in Grand Island is not until September this year! It would have been a perfect trip, but we lost a bike wheel to the wind gods on I-80 someplace west of Des Moines.