Two hundred miles across Iowa taught us that corn and soybeans can indeed be grown in adjacent fields but the rows of corn are much neater.
Heading east on Interstate 80 toward Davenport, we had to make a stop at The Worlds Largest Truck Stop, the Iowa 80. This facility has anything a truck driver could want: fuel, tires, truck service, a place to rest, a dentist, a chiropractor, restaurants…..you get the picture, even a museum with a huge collection of antique trucks! We dropped in to the vast truck parking area to have lunch and walk Sasha.
I 80 led us into the northern outskirts of the Quad Cities, Davenport, Moline, Bettendorf and Rock Island. From there we turned onto US 61 north and found ourselves in Swiss Valley County Park, just a few miles from Dubuque, Iowa, the city on the Mississippi most famous for its meat processing history. Swiss Valley is an attractive park, both in terms of green lawns for games, to nicely spaced camping sites, to an ice cream truck that cruises through the campground, softly playing that famous melody, dit, dot, dit,dot, dot, dit, dit. We arrived early, to a sparsely populated campground and didn’t realize that it’s a weekend. By 6 pm the campground was full and the sounds of laughing and screaming children was everywhere!
While it’s great to see families enjoying themselves, the “witching hour” of 9:30 pm arrived, all the young ones went to the evil side and then fell asleep! Good to hear!
Weather prediction is for rain tomorrow, so we’re see what we can do. Cleaning the trailer and doing laundry are on the list, so maybe…..
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