Nauvoo, IL (7 hours - 428 miles)
More car time. The kids have done rather well up to now considering that they don't have a computer to watch videos on. We found a northern route that would take us out of the city on to Iowa. As you can see there are no people with our sign. There was to much water. One thing that is nice the further east we go, the states become smaller and not so far to travel through. It's under a five hour drive to get from one end of the state to the other. It is a rather green state. We noticed that don't have irrigation systems for their fields.
Our first stop of the day was one that at the last minute we decided to add, LeClaire, IA. It's a small town that sits on the Mississippi River and home to one of Trevor's favorite television shows; American Pickers. He was so excited to go she the shop. We saw Mike's brother and briefly spoke with him. It was cool to see some of the items in the shop that we had watch them collect on the show.
Thirty minutes away and another state, John Deere, Moline, IL. Home of the green machines. The pavilion is a large glass building that houses several machines. The new tractors have nice amenities; air conditioning, satelite, stereo, cushy seats. In the gift shop they have some farming videos to watch. They show the farmers the different type of equipment that they can use for various types of farming. I don't know how farmers can afford the farm. James say's it's usually the bank that farms.
Onto the main event, Nauvoo, IL. We rolled in about 6:30 pm. We are staying at the Nauvoo Log Cabins. These are actual log cabins that have been moved to Nauvoo. We found a great little restuarant called Ziggie's. It's family owned and the owners and the food are wonderful. It was probably one of the best pizzas I have ever tasted. They told us that tomorrow nights desserts are cheesecake and german chocolate cake. Our favorites!! We'll be back tomorrow.
We knew that we were coming into rain and we weren't let down. But not before an amazing lighting storm. I hadn't see anything like it. The fireflies were out in force as well.
1 comment:
Your so funny-you hardly mentioned anything else about your trip. The Lightening storm does look amazing, and miss fireflies. Love all the pictures and the details! What a great trip! Look forward to the rest!
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