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I was in Iowa visiting my grandparents when RAGBRAI came through their town one year: Oyens, Iowa.

Population 94.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oyens,+IA/@42.8198478,-96....

Marne looks huge compared to Oyens... Marne has a restaurant and two stores! Oyens has a grain elevator and a closed church.

Do you know what is the building blurred by google street view, in front-left of the grain elevator ? I am curious.

Yeah in retrospect Sibley is in a totally different league. They have a Subway!

Northern Iowa is beautiful. The tops of some of those inclines yield spectacular vistas. You completely lose perspective of where you are. It is cool.

My nephew's wife grew up in Spirit Lake.

Especially for corn fields and huge skies lovers :)

When I did it one year, we went through a town with an official population of 6. Everyone was out helping, and apparently from neighboring farms/towns.