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Follow along with us on our travels with our motor home. Minnesota is our home, but we go south for the winter. Yes, we are Snowbirds. We love traveling and want to share our experiences with you. This will be our third time traveling south to avoid the cold Minnesota winters. Our travels began in late October with the first destination of Concord, New Hampshire, and New Haven, Connecticut, to visit family before heading south and will eventually get to Arizona before returning to Minnesota in April.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Keokuk, IOWA

I think we started north too soon.  It's nasty weather in Minnesota and it's not so hot here either.  Hopefully, after the weekend things will improve and we'll go home.

Chief Keokuk
Today we're in Keokuk, Iowa, a town of about 20,000 on the Mississippi River.  It will freeze here tonite, but at least it's not snowing (yet).  I think there is snow in the forecast for the weekend.

We explored the city for a while.  On the river's edge there are some wonderful big old homes and nearby there is a big park with a statue of Chief Keokuk.  He was more of a politician than a great Indian chief.  He talked his people into not fighting the Americans, and was moved off to a reservation in Kansas.  The town is named for him because of his friendship with the Americans.

Lock & Dam #19

Then we went to the visitor overlook of Lock & Dam #19.  It was built in 1913, and at that time was the largest electricity generating plant in the world.  It was rebuilt in 1957 and has a lift of over 38 feet.



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