Tuesday 8-27 Hello Wisconsin

Beautiful Sunny Day

Today was beautiful, it got into the high 70s with sunshine. It was very comfortable.

We drove another 300 miles today. We started from Mark Twain Lake in Missouri and ended up at the Village of Muscoda in Wisconsin. Our drive through Iowa was on four lane highways and two lane highways. We saw a lot of farmfields and drove through some small towns. We had driven a small part of the same route a couple of years ago when we followed the Mississippi river from Louisiana to it's beginning in Minnesota. I slept most of the drive. I'm like a little kid you put me in a vehicle and start driving I'll be asleep in minutes.

We stopped a few times. Twice to fill up the Minnie, once to have lunch and we stopped at a couple visitor centers in Wisconsin. The first visitor center only had a few local items, we have an old Wisconsin map but wanted a new one, they were out. The second visitor center was in Platteville, it's a small university town. A gentleman was manning it and was very helpful and recommended places to go. It had a lot of information except it didn't have any state maps. According to the guy working there Wisconsin elected a new governor and something to do with that had delayed the state on printing new maps. While we were there he recommended we walk around the grounds, they have a beautiful garden called Katie's Garden in remembrance of a young girl who died. Larry went back to the Minnie and read some of the information we picked up and I walked around Katie's Garden. It has a paved trail that goes along a small river and I think it goes into town I only walked it until it went under the main road. It was a bike trail. The garden had a lot of different types of flowers and birdhouses. Some of the flowers had butterflies on them. One of the birdhouses had a cute sign that said Wrent Free. I had a very nice walk.

Platteville Visitor Center

Katie's Garden entrance

Some of the flowers in the garden

The river that runs by the visitor center

The Wrent Free birdhouse

We were driving down a narrow two lane highway through farmfields and got stuck behind some farm equipment. The vehicles were going very slow so Larry passed them, there were four hugh tractors. When he did this we missed our turn so we had to go three miles up and turn around and come back to the turn. We arrived at the Village of Muscoda Park about 4:00.

Village of Muscoda Park is a very nice park. It has electric sites for $25 dollars a night and tent sites for $10. Some of the sites looked over the river. After setting up the Minnie for the night we walked around the park to figure out where to pay. Larry flagged down a gentleman and he said that a lady comes around to collect the fee. We went back to the Minnie and relaxed. After dinner we walked around the park and through the neighborhood for about 45 minutes. It was a very nice walk, there was a little breeze. We walked the path by the river and then around the high school and elementary school. Larry spent the rest of the evening reading and I did my Solitaire Challenges. We had another great day. 

The tent campground

A covered ramada that looks over the river

The river at the Village of Muscoda Park