A little cooler this morning (68) I took advantage and started packing before Diane was up. This is this first day that it was below 70 in the morning. And before I forget this will be the 3rd day in a row with out rain. We were packed and ready to roll by 10:00. It was into the low 80's by the time I unhooked the water/sewer and on the sunny side. I'm glad I did most it early. We headed out route 20 a four lane road quite rough in some places. We stopped at a Flying J with RV lanes. Turns out it was one pump at a slight angle just as I pulled in a camper pulled in going the wrong way and a SUV was blocking the other side. I tried to make the turn to go out couldn't make it. Now we are blocking half of the entrance. Diane thought we could make the turn going the wrong way. That certainly beat unhooking the truck while blocking the entire entrance to a Flying J. I cranked the Moho as hard as I could and we just cleared the curb and we were out of there. We pulled into a Target parking lot for lunch somewhere near Waterloo IA. When we left the intersection was under construction leaving very narrow travel lanes and hard turns. I made the turn Diane was watching the truck in her mirror and I had my head out the window to see if my mirror would miss the lane closed sign. Phew!! We made it. The rest of the trip was uneventful and we arrived. Except the road into the state park was long with three turns and poor signage. However we guessed right and got to our spot without any further ta do. The traditional travel day burgers and nice walk for Rudy.
Tuesday 9 July 2019
We are set up and enjoying the park. The sites are very nice and large with a picnic table and a nice fire pit. Brad and I headed into town about 11:00 and stopped for lunch at the local diner, not bad.
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Old Town Architecture and
one of the heated streets!!
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We walked up the street, stopped at a little shop that had wine, cheeses, meats and animal feed.....you can tell you're in the back woods of Iowa. We crossed the street and did the local museum, which was a sanitarium, and a few other things before it became the museum. It was a guided tour and they actually had a lot of interesting things and the lady had a lot of interesting stories to tell. After that we headed back through town, when Brad decided it was processed cheese on his sandwich and not real Cheddar cheese so it's time to head home. Brad was pretty much under the weather the rest of the night, so it was chicken and green beans for dinner a couple of walks and an early evening for us all.
Wednesday 10 July 2019
We got up and had a nice breakfast, then I started cleaning while Brad waited for his time to take Rudy to the vet (he has a spot on his leg he keeps licking and now has it raw). While they were gone I worked on cleaning the floor and doing a good steam cleaning. I had both bathrooms and the bedroom done until they got home. We then had tomato sandwiches for lunch and then I threw Brad and Rudy out until I finished the rest of the Moho. Now this is not an exciting day, but it needed to be done and I felt good getting it finished. We had a very nice evening meal, steak, mushrooms and a baked potato....it was a good day.
Thursday 11 July, 2019
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We got up and headed out about 10:00 going into Fayette for breakfast, what a mistake, not a restaurant in site, a bakery, but not breakfast. So up the road to West Union to the Gus and Tony's Cafe for a nice breakfast. This is the same place that feed me cheese spread and called it cheddar, but breakfast was good and we had entertainment. One of four old geezers came over to ask what brings Pennsylvania's to his town. He was quite interesting and we learned a lot about West Union IA. The most interesting thing was that main street around the court house and two blocks each direction and all the businesses have been set up to use geo-thermal heat. The town drilled 120 wells, replaced all the water and sewer lines, paved the streets with brick and used directive concrete in the drainage areas. It costs over 10 million most coming from the geo-thermal industry as a grant. He left just as we finished our last bit of breakfast. We were off to Fort Atkinson, the Bily brother's clock museum, the smallest utilized church in the USA and back home for diner. Now these places are not something you drive out here to see but they are all very interesting and each bring a piece of history with them. The Bily brothers who were farmers and carved clocks in the winter were offered one million dollars by Henry Ford for a clock.... they refused the offer. WOW! On the way home we stopped at a local vegetable stand for
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4 pews and holds 8 people
built in 1885 and still
used today!
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PS. As the day wore on I began to notice some pain in my ear. A quick stop(3hrs) at a walk in clinic and I was on my way with drugs for an ear infection. Oh Yea!!
Friday 12 July, 2019
It was 60 degrees this morning that's the coolest is has been in a long time. We had breakfast on the grill and Diane headed into town for a haircut and started to wash the Moho. It was 1 o'clock by the time she returned and I was tired of scrubbing. We had lunch, cleaned up and for a reward we took ourselves to a winery just outside of the park. A little like the Field of Dreams movie, honed out of an Iowa corn field is this winery. To our surprise there were ten of us there for a tasting which was free. You get five free samples but apparently for lady couldn't count as we had at least ten each. Just goes to show you 'if you build it they will come' it was really nice. Back to the Moho chicken on the grill with some local Iowa wine. A good day.
The road to the winery, yes in the middle of a corn field
The winery was actually cute and the wine not bad!!
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