First time up close to one of these wind mills. We've seen fields of them on our way to Wisconsin every year, but never realized how big they really were until this trip. First time being able to touch the roof of a parking garage! I thought the top of our explorer was going to scrap!
Here we are crossing the Mississippi River. Scott and Annabelle have never been west of Illinois! They could not believe how wide the River was. Impressive bridge too!
Here we are at the World's Largest Truckstop in Davenport, Iowa! We stopped both on the way to Des Moines and on the way home. The kids thought it was amazing. Several restaurants inside to choose from, an arcade, gift shop, quick mart, nicest bathrooms we've ever seen at any stop and of course BP gasoline! We were amazed what a difference a day makes. On Saturday there were not so many people at the stop, but on our way home on Sunday - Wow, we had to wait a while in lines before we could even order our food! There were loads of people and groups of kids.
All in all our trip to DesMoines was a good one. Wish we could of spent more time there. Very nice people and a very clean city.
2 comments:
Did you go see any sights?
Is this Mark's relative?
Yes, Joanne this is a niece of ours on Mark's side of the family. What you don't think the "World's Largest Truck Stop" is a site? What about the Mississippi River? :) We had only the two days and it was 5 hours each way. We really drove and went to the graduation, dinner, hotel, breakfast and home. Also, we had left Mojo in the care of a neighbor boy and I didn't like leaving him. I wish we had more time off of our jobs so we could have went at least a day earlier to rome the campus of Drake University more.
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