Day 103: Fear of Flooding

Yesterday, after hiding under that bridge for over an hour, the Fool decided to face the music and walk through the rain. He headed north on S23 to the tiny town of Lacona — a delectable 16 miles away — where he ate at "Rudy's Rendezvous‎" and camped in some weeds by a creek.

Today, he went to the equally small town of Milo which actually had a library. He did some research on the computer and found out that all this rain has caused lots of flash flooding — including in Des Moines, the next big city on the Fool's trip. Now he knows why when he kept showing his potential routes into Des Moines to the decrepit Pizza Hut waitress yesterday, she kept pointing to the map and stridently uttering "underwater!"

As the WF reached Indianola, only a half a day's walk from Des Moines, he started to meet up with road closings and underwater pathways. He wondered whether a visit to the state's capital was possible.