- Beautiful weather this week - low 80's & low humidity. Good biking weather.
- Got our door locks fixed and we hit the road again.
- Joined our friends Jan and Chuck at Swan Lake State Park in Carroll, IA.
- Meeting new friends along the way - people we hope to see again some day.
Had our trees trimmed in the campground yesterday...
Found a cute little bar in a tiny Iowa town on our bikes - full of mounted animals, large and small, and even a deer hind-end. A First....
Met some roamers like us ... traveling around looking for bike trails. Hope to run
into Ted & Colleen from Maryland again some day - "Fools On a Mission to Tour America at 10 mph" - 
Gary and Judy have 2 Lions club exchange students staying with them this month. We joined all of them in Pender, Nebraska for a Quasquicentennial parade that included Shriners from all around. Lots of the little cars, etc and Gary's White Horse Mounted Patrol group from Sioux City. So beautiful to see. After the show, they put the Lions Club girls up on the horses. That's
Birute from Lithuania and Zophia from Slovakia. They are delightful, speak English very well, and are really enjoying being "Iowa Farm Girls". Birute calls our RV a "Driving House". I like it! Going to use that from now on...
Birute from Lithuania and Zophia from Slovakia. They are delightful, speak English very well, and are really enjoying being "Iowa Farm Girls". Birute calls our RV a "Driving House". I like it! Going to use that from now on...
The corn will definitely NOT be "knee high by the Fourth of July" this year ... unless it's the Jolly Green Giant's knee. More like "as high as an elephant's eye." The rains have been perfect for corn so far ... and now need to slow down. Water table is up so high that creeks and rivers now overflow with every rain.
