Catch up time. July 22 - August 2, 2008

Well, it's time to catch up on a few days travels. Tuesday the 27th found us traveling from Wapello to Ft. Madison, Iowa. I didn't get any pictures but we rode along the flooded areas of the Mississippi River. There was one road that we had to detour because it was flooded in a low lying spot. Oh well, the best laid plans sometimes go astray but it made for more bicycling miles and that is good. It also made me thankfully we don't have flooded areas like that at home. Wednesday the 27th we traveled into Illinois to Quincy, the home of the Lincoln-Douglas debate passing through Nauvoo with it's Mormon Temple and saw some of the buildings. We visited the shop of Mr. Browning who invented many things including house nails and the Browning machine gun. Rather brilliant and versatile in his inventions.