Today we traveled further through the Great Plains, leaving Iowa for South Dakota. Although it seems flat at first glance, in fact the terrain is rolling hills as far as you can see. Some of the wind gusts were strong enough to blow the RV over a 1/2 lane or so. It isn’t hard to image when the hills were covered with buffalo. You just need to squint and pretend that’s what the cows are 🙂
The Missouri River (with a lot of bugs on the windshield for atmosphere).
We had a seriously good burger and fries at an interesting local spot.
Tonight we’re staying in Rock Island which is part of the Quad Cities area (Davenport, IA). The Mississippi River runs through the area, and this week the river crested at the 7th or 8th highest level ever recorded.
I took this picture from the news service.
These are pictures from a couple of sites over from where we are. They had to close a good portion of the campground because the sites are flooded. But the geese are happy 🙂
This is not going to be a very exciting post as we are just trying to cover some miles to get to the west. We’ve had terrible weather since Friday but starting tomorrow it should get a bit better now that we’ve made it to Columbus, OH. There was snow going through western PA at the higher altitudes (this was actually snow but looks like rain).
Though there were glimpses of how pretty some of the area is.
And Beau was on top of his co-pilot duties! Or maybe not…
on our first day – but just barely! Oh boy, sometimes things just don’t come easy. The manufacturer didn’t get our RV back to us until a week before departure. Some things still weren’t fixed after it being with them for 9 months – which was really discouraging after all the issues, and we still had things to do to it once we got it back – outside of what the dealer had on the warranty list.
Combine that with having to empty out our kitchen at the house for a gut reno (but coming back to a brand new kitchen!) while we are gone, it was a rough departure from the house to say the least. And the weather conspired against us to boot with a corker of a storm front coming through the day before we had to leave. However we did it, and here we are in Newburgh, NY on the way to State College, PA area tomorrow on schedule.
So not a lot of scenery pics today, but a couple of Beau pics. He was such a trooper adapting to his first day of the road trip with not a lot of play time.
In this pic the slides are closed for travel. The Beast needs a spring cleaning which we’ll do when we get a layover day.
3 For the Road 