Forest City, Iowa

We left Devil’s Tower, Wyoming on Friday morning and headed east on I-90 across South Dakota. We overnighted in Midland and then our “hometown” of Sioux Falls. We left Sioux Falls early Sunday morning and continued on I-90 into Minnesota. Then we dropped south into northern Iowa and drove towards our destination of the Winnebego Customer Service center in Forest City.

We planned to travel way north, hoping to avoid bad weather (high winds, hail, and tornadoes), after both our motorhome and pickup suffered severe hail damage in a storm last year. It turned out that if we’d gone our usual way to Iowa, across Nebraska, staying overnight in Omaha, we would have been hit by an EF-1 tornado at the campground at Offutt Air Force Base on Saturday night where we usually stay.  

We arrived in Forest City around noon on Sunday and secured a “campsite” with an electrical hookup at the service center. Last October we made a 5-day appointment at Winnebego to get several things fixed under our new RV one-year warranty. Winnebego ordered the required parts well in advance and the technician did an outstanding job for us.

However, it’s been exhausting for us to get up at 5AM every day to get ready and turn our motorhome over to the service center at 7AM. We get it back around 3PM and move back to our campsite. We’ve been here before so we know about the “all you can eat pork ribs and fried chicken” dinner at Mitchell’s Bar & Grill on Tuesday and Thursday nights. I also had to go to Shooterz Bar & Grill to have one of their “pork tenderloin sandwiches”. It was all very good.

We headed north out of Forest City on U.S 69, then west on I-90 across southern Minnesota and South Dakota. About midway across South Dakota, we plan to drop down to Scottsbluff, Nebraska on our way back to Colorado Springs. It’s a bucket list item—we’ve never seen Scotts Bluff on the Oregon Trail.  

Steve & Julie Cornelius