View of the day-Al and Jeff checking out the Lock and Dam #10 on the Mississippi River on the way to Dubuque.
Since we only had 180 miles to cover today, we got to sleep in a bit before having the free breakfast at the hotel. It was raining when we left and we drove through it off and on for most of the morning before it finally broke up. We had a better day for driving and got to see a lot of different scenery along the way.
We stopped for lunch in Decorah...Pizza Hut of course...and then we stopped in at the CaseIH dealer to check out some toys. We picked up their sales catalogue and discovered they sold cargo trailers...hmmm...they had one just the right size for 'toy hauling'. It was about 45 miles away, a little off our planned route, but we had nothing but time so we detoured to check it out. After much discussion and haggling, Al & Jeff decided to go for it and are now proud owners of a 5X8 cargo trailer for their farm toy business...no more loading and unloading of toys in the rotten winter weather and best of all Mar
ilyn will get all her closets and storage space back! The only hitch with the purchase was that the title was back in Decorah, so we will be making a road trip back up their tomorrow, via a different route.It was such a great day for driving, it was in the mid 60's and the wind was behind us, but we heard...and saw...the nasty storms that were hitting the area we had left just yesterday...blizzards and heavy snowfall...thank goodness that the combine and header had gotten moved to Kenmare. The rolling hills and cornfields were really something to see...although no one was combining because of the rain. It was different to see all the farms so close together, not at all like a lot of the places we work where you can drive for miles between farmsteads before you see any signs of habitation.
We checked into the hotel when we reached Dubuque and took a short drive but it had gotten dark so we didn't see too much of the area. We found someplace for supper then stopped at Walmart...all three of us this time...then went back to the hotel to digest and hit the hot tub before calling it a day.
Hopefully tomorrow is as great a day...
1 comment:
Looks like that trailer could fit in the back of Jeff's pickup. That's good, Now you will have something to put my toys in when the brothers buy them from me. Don't spend all your money at the toy show. Save about $3500 for me. Inch and a half of rain, now snowing with high winds. Talked to a friend up by Minot. She said they got 16 inches of the white stuff on the ground. That would'nt be so bad if we did'nt have 0000 acres of corn out in the field yet. Know where we could find some good harvesters. Later, Mike
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