Heading south. We spent a night in Galesburg, Il. Then on to Warsaw, Il, on the Mississippi. On the way we stopped at the jail in Carthage, Il. where Joseph Smith was killed by a mob. Silly me, I did not realize that it was a historical place for the Mormons. Joe was the man who found the tablets and started the Mormon religion. We arrived, our tour guide was a church elder dressed in a suit and he proceeded to tell us the story of the martyring of the prophet. In Warsaw we were going to stop for a couple nights. John went to the low spot in Iowa, across the river. It was on private property of a corn syrup production plant. I sat in the car, being the law abiding citizen I am while John trespassed. Pick up our mail. But the radiator of the car cracked the head(?) and we are waiting for another one to come in on Monday. Fortunately we are in the only town in the area that has a radiator repair shop. Not so bad, camped out on the Mississippi. Small , quiet, cute town, trees still turning.
the jail in Carthage,the Mississippi the first evening of our arrival
the next morning with a towboat and barges going by, the George M Verity, a steam powered paddle boat
we wondered why they needed a fire hydrant if the hotel was fireproof, and Chief Keokuk in Keokuk Iowa. It was by the chief that the radiator did its thing.
buzzards circling the bus!
sunset colors on the bus by the river
sunset the second night. life jackets made of cork and wood
The George M Verity is a museum about steamships on the Mississippi. It was very interesting. John worked on a tow boat on the Mississippi one summer as a deck hand during high school.
the pilot house, John at the bridge
some of the steam engines. lock and dam 19 at Keokuk, Iowa.
the front and back of the basket I am working on.
biking past the corn fields, a reflection on a pond seen biking
John biking by a farm and silos, John kicking up lots of dust biking
the sunset the 3rd night.
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