The Daily Ping

FROM: Jessica
DATE: Friday August 4, 2006 -- 3:04:58 pm

Wow...Council Bluffs, Iowa must really suck!

FROM: Abbey
DATE: Friday August 4, 2006 -- 4:13:50 pm

That reminds me of something really funny. I don't think it worked, but my besst friends older brother put super glue on the toilet seats last year. I swear none of us lives anywhere near Iowa.

FROM: Terry M.
DATE: Friday August 4, 2006 -- 6:50:15 pm

I have spent a night in Council Bluffs, Iowa and I can confirm that it is indeed the craphole of the universe.

Some 7.5 years ago (wow), I made three-day drive from Portland, OR to Urbana, IL. I started the second day in Snowville, UT and blasted through Wyoming and Nebraska, and was itching to make it to a state which started with an "I" by the end of the day. Some time after midnight I rolled into Council Bluffs, although I never saw the 'Welcome to Iowa' sign so I asked the motel clerk what city I was in. He said, "You're in Council Bluffs, Iowa!". All I remember was .. pure sleeze. Lots of neon, lots of bars, and old skanky strippers walking on the main drag.

I made the same trip again some 6 months later but compressed it to 2 days .. spent the night in my little car in a rest stop somewhere in central Nebraska, which is better than Council Bluffs. I still think about that city whenever I hear the Metallica song Turn the Page ... "On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha ..." I just sold the car I made those trips in a couple months ago .. some 225,000 miles, 160,000 of them on my watch.