Blogs from Iowa, United States, North America - page 3

Rodeo City Park, Fort Madison, IA We are getting used to breaking camp, hitching up, and driving through the rain. So we knew what to do yesterday when we woke up and it was raining cats and dogs. But even with all the practice, I can’t say that I like it - its hard work and unpleasant. The reward, of course, is that you get to move on. And by the end of the day, after a long 330 miles pretty much straight across southern Iowa, we finally saw patches of blue. Although the rain varied from spells of intense downpours to periods of just dark skies, it was chilly outside and damp. Us westerners aren’t used to all this wet cold. We left Beatrice due east to Auburn and then headed north to Nebraska City ... read more

Today we got past Chicago and crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa. We are camped in a nicely kept county park near Davenport. We didn't have any reservations and since this is a Friday afternoon we stopped a little early to make sure we could get a spot. We took the Honda down to a park along the Mississippi River. There was a number of people fishing from the bank and some type of kayaking event just getting underway by a women's outdoors club. I included a few pictures. Now that we are west of the Mississippi I think the countryside will start to get more interesting. In the meantime I'm just glad to be camping and exploring new places. Our friends John and Linda, who were planning to make this trip with us, had to ... read more

Well it is time for the next installment of our vacation adventures. We are travelling with our family to Paris, London, and Wales over the next two weeks - and are looking forward to the sight seeing and the adventures we always have travelling. Our first stop is Paris where we will spend 3 days. From there we will take the "Chunnel" to London and sight see there for 3 days. At the end of the first week, we go to Wales and pick up a canal boat and will spend the second week touring the canals in Wales. We are in Chicago, waiting for our plane to Philedelphia. Connie has already located the child she most wants to sit beside. The other good news is that both flights are totally full! So far, so good ... read more

After an early wake up and final check of all needed items, we were on our way to Diane and John's for our Limo pickup to Boston's Logan Airport. Traffic was light so we arrived in plenty of time. After checking our bags in at curbside, and waiting for the others to do so, Ray happens to look at the boarding passes and noted that we had been upgraded to 1st class. Sounded great till he realized that the destination was now Orlando, Fl and his name was Mohammed something or other. As our bags had already disappeared down the conveyer belt, concern crept in rapidly. Luckily the bags were correctly sent to MSP and just the boarding passes were incorrect. I can only imagine not finding this out till we were ready to board. I ... read more

We made it! And, I trust we are all tucked in for the night by now in our spiffy new "Minnie Winnie's".This will be short and sweet as it's been a long day. Dorrie & I flew into Minneapolis from Naples on Thursday and met up with Tom & Peggy who had flown in the same day from Virginia. We met for dinner at City Grill at the Mall of America for a great meal. Al & Sue flew into Kansas a week earlier to attend a wedding and met up with us today in Iowa. Dorrie & I spent about 10 hours between yesterday and today visiting just about all 520 stores in the Mall of America and managed to ride one of the many roller coasters with Tom so that we could impress upon ... read more