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Travel Blogs from Marquette
Effigy Mounds National Park
... and hard to make out, but there were some lovely views of the Mississippi. From there we crossed back into Wisconsin (after fueling up in cheaper Iowa) and popped in the Visitor Centre to get some maps and info. Armed with a few more
trees, we headed off towards Madison.
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Cabelas - somewhere other than Walmart
12th Aug cont.
We headed out on Hwy 61 down to Red Wing where we had a break and a look round historical Main St and down to the levee of the Mississippi. From there we carried on and followed the river down to Winona where we caught a bit of heavy rain but managed to overtake it for long enough to see the town from the Garvin Heights overlook. We got back on the road just as the rain caught up but managed to out run it again until we ...
Friends and Family and Lots In Between
... Becky Thatcher and all those others made famous in Mark Twain’s classic novels. We had our lunch in the local dinette, slurped our dessert from Becky Thatcher’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor and Emporium, walked the trails along the river in the “footsteps” of Tom and Huck, and just let our minds wander back to those wonderfully innocent days of yore when life was a ...
A Month of Relaxing at the Farm
... they found out we were back in town, and we got to go on lots of Ranger Rides, the kids’ favorite thing to do at the Farm! Life is always good down on the Farm, and we are so glad we had the time to kick back and enjoy it! ;-)
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On a Winter’s Night at the Farm in Iowa
... comforted.
……………R 30;..In the wee morning hours of February 20th, on a moonlit clear, crisp and calm beautiful Midwest winter’s night, Carrie’s mom Vernell was mercifully summoned from on high to her next journey and was ever so peacefully spirited away to the kingdom ...