Iowa 80, offers a restaurant, showers, a laundry, a workout room, a library and a theater; there’s a barber, a chiropractor, even a dentist. It's not a mall—it's a truck stop.
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Pretty much every trucker working between east and west will at some point drive Interstate 80 connecting Chicago to San Francisco. As one driver, Jim Caputo, put it, “there just aren’t that many ways across the Rockies.” Customers are also interested in miniature and full-size guitars, machine-embroidered hats, jackets, lawn ornaments, ghillie suits, black bear figurines and dyed raccoon caps.
I’m not the first person to compare this truck stop to a small, bustling city—a city that is, by necessity, open 24 hours a day, a city whose occupants are always coming and going. The management can’t control who drives in and out. They work to contain the same problems that exist in any city. Gazing at a collection of antique toy trucks and the brightly lit array of petroliana, including old-style pumps bearing lit names of gasoline companies that I’ve never heard of, I have the sense of stopped time.
We loaded up at the buffet, chatting over the pot roast, ham, turkey, mac ‘n’ cheese, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, wild rice, fried chicken, fried shrimp, barbecue shrimp, salad and desserts.
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