We had a bumpy ride covering a lot of ground on Monday. From Iowa we headed to Wisconsin to see lake Michigan. Yes, it was, wet, big and sandy. hehe With a lot of people all around. As long as we were so close we decided we could put another state on our home and visit Illinois. It was a short uneventful trip to the state and then back to Iowa..We have not had good luck with having any good roads and it took it’s toll on all three of us.
After driving for 5 hours we stopped at a Lowes in Dubuque and asked if we could stay over night in their parking lot. The people on the floor didn’t know if we could stay or not but were kind enough to find a manage that had the answer for us. Yes, we could stay. It was a noisy stay with many cars and trucks driving by but we slept well anyway.
Upon waking up on Tuesday morning Mark received a text that a relative had passed away that morning. So we turned around and are heading back to Hutch. We drove quite aways before we found a campground. Normally we would have camped out in a WM or someplace similar, but the temp as in the upper 80’s and we needed the comforts of air conditioning. It’s looking like a very warm week so I hope we can find electrical hook ups until it cools down again.
The campground we found was in Owatona deep into a huge grove of tall trees. We scored on their fall discount, 50 amp service and full hook ups for under $30. Since we aren’t staying long, we just dropped the rear stabilizer, opened the slide, and hooked up the water, sewer and electricity. It is a nice place to camp too. Not sure when the funeral is so that will depend on if we stay another night or not. I’m not too anxious to go back to Hutch any sooner than we have to.
When we head back down the road, I’m hoping to go to Dowes Iowa like last year. They have a BP stop that has GodFathers pizza. We really would like one more before we go further south. The roads are better in Iowa than Wisconsin too. This time we will head more south than east.
There are a lot of trees changing color already and the soy bean fields down here are really drying. I hope we can get out of the 5 state area before the beans are picked so no Asian beetles stow rides again this year. Yuck. Last year there were still a few in the camper when we got to AZ in November.
This trip is no different than any other…….
Always an Adventure.
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