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Ten Degrees and Getting Colder

  Cold Sunrise   That's just the name of the song written by Gordon Lightfoot.  It was actually -13 F when I got up this morning (wind chill -24).  Tucson may have pulled back into the lead!  There's a lot of weighing pros and cons of Colorado vs Arizona by the wood stove.  Not much else to report. I did enjoy a few games of pool and a beer with my brother this week.  We don't get together very often, so it's good to try to keep the lines of communication open, especially with my mother celebrating her 86th birthday next month.  He lives in Milwaukee and just started semi-retirement.  Our opposing politics and lifestyles keep things very casual and surface-level.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.   It's important to find common ground.  He and his wife have started going to concerts and recently saw the Steve Miller Band.  Music is one of our common interests.      

Muscatine, Iowa


We have grown to love the little towns of Iowa along the Mississippi River. Muscatine quickly became our favorite. 


This is the town that Mark Twain worked as a young newspaper reporter. 


We camped at another Corps of Engineers campground just north of town.


We spent one day hiking all of the trails at nearby Wildcat Den State Park. No entry fees.



And, of course, there was time for a brewpub. Muscatine has a really good one: Contrary Brewing.





That concludes our Midwest trip through Illinois and Iowa during early May. Our next trip in late May headed weat.

 

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