Monday August 22 and Tuesday August 23, 2011

Monday
We got out of Dubuque at about 9:30 after doing a cache near the park.  Our destination for the day was Lundeen's Landing in East Moline, Ill. a distance of about 90 miles.  We followed the GPS and were about a mile from the park when a man passed us on a double yellow line.  A little further on he stopped and waved us down.  Turns out there was 12'2" clearance bridge ahead, before we would get to the park.  He lives at Lundeen's Landing and gave us directions to get around the low bridge.  Gerri also checked the web page for instructions for big rigs.  The trip around was about 15 miles.  Our total travel was 108 miles, then I missed the turn into the park and had to unhook the Jeep in the road and turn around by backing into a driveway.
After we got set up in the site we drove to Le Claire to complete our mission in the area. We visited Antique Archaeology, home of the American Pickers.  We bought a tee shirt and took pictures.
We went to a nearby Walmart for some groceries.  
 I then went out and did three caches.  I stopped by Glen's, the man who flagged us down, to thank him again.  We talked for awhile and he gave me fillets of catfish he had caught that morning.
This RV Park had no sewer at the sites, so I planned to dump at the station across the road.

Tuesday
We had planned to get up at 8 and start out as soon as we were ready.  As it turned out I was awakened by heavy thunder at about 7:15.  I got up and hooked up the Jeep.  Before we were all set to go it was raining heavily with thunder and lightning.  We got a lot of water in with the slides.  I passed on the dump station and we headed out at about 9.  We had rain a lot of the way toward our destination of Overland Park, KS.  Gerri had talked to her aunt Wanda and the plan was to park at the Overland Park Church of Christ and go to dinner with Wanda and others.  We were parked and set up by 4:30 after traveling 408 miles.
Our goal for tomorrow is Wichita to visit Gerri's Great Uncle and Aunt who use to live in Idaho.

 Aunt Wanda, Gerri, Michelle, Shirley, Glenna and Frank

 Carrie, another cousin arrived a little later

The goofy cousins...