IT’S a well-known fact that Americans are over-worked and under-rested. We have driven ourselves to the brink of exhaustion with our frantic schedules and determination to do everything and do it well.But there comes a time when nothing but the peace and tranquility of a day in the country can take our minds off the constant demands of our technological world. There is something about a calm country setting, the span of open fields all around us, the distant creak of an abandoned windmill, and even the sound of birds singing in the trees, that can put us back in touch with ourselves, our loved ones, and the beauty of the natural world around us.
From the times of medieval Europe, the families who could afford to do so took their holidays at country homes where the noise of the city, the parade of guests, and the business of running a household could be forgotten for a short while.
Today’s couples often seek respite in the form of week-long vacations to Hawaii or Las Vegas. But as everyone knows, many of us return from such vacations more exhausted than when we left home! How many times have you heard someone say, “I need a vacation to recover from my vacation!”? Now there is a solution for when you must escape, even if only for the weekend, a place where you can forget all your worries and responsibilities, where you can sleep with the windows open and listen to the hoot owl and the crickets sing your good night song. Here at the StageStop, you can once again take in the vast night sky and its million and one stars, the bright moon, the sunrise and the sunset, all the more vivid in the absence of city lights.
This country escape is available to you, just one hour south of Des Moines and two hours north of Kansas City. The sense of relief is tangible even as you head down the interstate toward open country.
