Silica Caves outside St. Louis

Route 66
Caves where they dig for Silica
Caves with Silica
This is the Silica Plant. We saw them loading a truck from this towers. They had a shoot from the tower like a shoot on a cement truck.

St. Louis Arch at Night

This is the reflection upclose of lights off of the steel Arch. It is unexplainable! Beautiful!
The Arch looks like crinkled foil from a distance at night.
St. Louis at night from the Gateway Arch to the West! Great city. St. Louis and the Chicago Cubs were playing this night.
The Arch from the city. It was soooo shiny. We just loved this. If you haven't seen the Arch at night you haven't seen it.

St. Louis Arch in Daytime

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL. One of the BEST things we have seen!!
We were not aware that the Arch was made of steel!!

Springfield, Illinois

The old Capitol Building used during Lincoln's time.

This is the new Capitol Building only a few blocks from the old one. This building has an inuse railroad track right in front of it. It makes a beautiful building not very appealing to the eye.

Patti and Tuck in front of Abraham Lincoln's home. He owned and lived in this house right before he moved to DC as President. This was the only house that Lincoln ever owned.

This is the Lincoln house again. The little grey house beside it is where the Sheriff lived. The Sheriff helped with Lincoln's campaign. The man who lived about where I took this picture opposed Lincoln's nomination.

Fenelon Place Incline Elevator

This is the world's steepest, shortest scenic railway. 296 feet in length, elevating passengers 189 feet from Fourth Street to Fenelon Place. Magnificent view of Dubuque, the Mississippe River and three states -- Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois
Fenelon Place Incline
Looking down!
Tucker and Tim riding down!!!!

Dubuque, Iowa

This is the view of Dubuque, IA from the top of the Fenelon Place Elevator. This is looking into Wisconsin.
Dubuque, IA looking into Illinois. This is a cute town. Very old. The view from about is beautiful as you can see.
ECOLAB in everywhere. Even Iowa!!! HA!

Iowa Cornfields

Iowa is ALL cornfields!! We have begun to love the beauty of it. This is the area near Dyersville where Field of Dreams was made. Wish we had stopped to see it. Next Time!!!
The view from our campsite at the Rustic Barn. We decided to stay in Kieler, WI to visit Dubuque, IA
The County Courthouse in Dubuque, IA.
Tim and Tucker in front of the Old Jail!!

Forest City and Waterloo Iowa

We had Tornado Watches this night. The storm was horrible. We had to put the awnings in and pull in the back slides. The wind was pretty bad.
The South Carolina Party. These men came around to sing to us. There were 5 South Carolina Coaches.
In Waterloo, IA we went out to dinner and visited with Liz and Mike Harn. We were in the Navy with Liz and Mike and hadn't seen them in about 35 years.
Tim, Patti, Liz and Mike. We had a great time catching up on the last 35 years. We had so much fun that we were really glad we got to see them.

Parade Pictures

These didn't go through before. The PUCKERBRUSH PARADE!! Forest City, Iowa!!
Mike the Tiger LSU

Opening Ceremonies at GNR

We got to carry the South Carolina in the GNR parade at the Opening Ceremonies!
Tim entering the Ceremonies!!
Crowd at the Ceremonies!
Tim entering the stage area presenting the South Carolina Flag with southern straw hat in the height of fashion!!! HA

Forest City, Iowa

WIT and Visitor Center!!
Hobo Museum in Britt, Iowa. Can't wait to go back and see this. It was closed on Saturday.
Windmills near Britt, Iowa.
Wind Center and Tim!!