T here are a few ways to think about Iowa. You might imagine America’s 29th state as the land of corn and pigs ( 20 million hogs can’t be wrong, reads my favorite T-shirt for sale at the Eastern Iowa Airport). Maybe you associate it with Field of Dreams , Caitlin Clark, or the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. You might also picture Iowa as flat, like a pancake. But you would be wrong. Iowa is not even in the top five flattest U.S. states, which is a fact I was considering last month