OK, I have orders to keep this blog up. Well its been a busy two days. Yest. we went to Winterset Iowa. It is a darling small town with the neatest town square. It also has the Fons and Porter store with the nicest people. We went to John Wayne's home and that was really interesting. We saw the covered bridges of Madison county (remember the book?) and then walked about 2-4 miles up a hill to the Clark Tower. Finally catching up on my pictures so will be able to post some soon. We ended up staying in a walmart parking lot last nite. We tried to go to the balloon museum in oscalosa but we were to late and it was closed and Leroy didn't want to wait till am.
Today we went to Kalona. it is the Quilt capital in the Midwest. We went to the quilt museum, a historic village, and a Mennonite museum. We are surrounded by the Amish and the buggies are everywhere. It is pretty cool. A lot of quilts. This is the largest Amish colonies east of the river. The barns have quilt squares on them, and a map to find them. They have quilt squares in the sidewalk, also with a tour you could do. It is pretty cool. Carver county in Minn. is also starting a barn quilt tour and that's pretty cool too.
The temps have been in the 30's in the am and 50's maybe during the day. Not a problem for me as I love fall weather. Beautiful colors all around us. Minn was gorgeous but not quite as bright as some years, but that's because they didn't have enough rain during the summer. They definitely are having cool nites and sunny days tho so it is great. I am walking in great leaves, it is just gorgeous, such a pretty fall. I love it, cool enough for me to wear a sweatshirt without getting to hot. Yeah!!!!!!!
The farmers out here are working their buts off trying to get the last of the crops in. Mostly the corn which got in late so it matured late. Its just getting ready now. They are driving their tractors like maniacs trying to get back to the field to harvest more.
We are doing OK in the RV. as well as we normally get along. Our biggest problem is me reading the map for him. Man we just can't work that out. He never does what i say and he thinks i don't have credibility cause i screw up so often. But it will work out as time goes by. We will either work it out or one of us will kill the other, ha ha.
So its been taking us about 8 hours a day to go 200 miles or less a day. Seems funny but that's what our plans were, plan the days as we went along. We will probably go broke but having a good time now anyhow.. So hopefully we will hit Missouri tomorrow and be near St Louis by the weekend. That will give us time to get the dogs cleaned up and ready as hopefully we will go for the first show on Thurs. Glad to hear things have cleared up as Leroy was hoping to get up to the arch.
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