More Friends, Better Weather

We are now camped along the upper Mississippi River where Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota meet. Our friends Jim and Margaret and their dog, Bo, rented a camper van and joined us for three nights. Here they are with VanVan. The experience taught them a lot of things they didn’t want if they decide to get a camper of their own.

They had a spot right next to us at Blackhawk Park Campground.

I think of the Mississippi as in a broad valley, but here the river is lined with steep bluffs.

It’s quite beautiful.

Jim and Margaret are great sports and since the weather was nice they agreed to a game of disc golf.

The course was one of the nicest we’ve played. It was wooded but open enough for amateurs like us. There was grass in most of the fairways, so Matey was enjoying a roll.

Jim and Margaret had not played disc golf since we visited them at their home in Rochester, Minnesota. But they have their own discs now and were getting the hang of it.

There was a nice variety of shots, including this high basket.

Bud thought we needed a picture of me retrieving the discs to show how high the basket was. We had a lot of fun. Bo even got to be loose the last couple of holes and pretty much learned that these frisbees are not for fetching.

Wednesday we stayed at the park where we are camped and took a couple of walks along the river. At one end of the park you can walk along the main channel where there is the occasional barge.

They are back home, now, and I had to go do the wash. That turned out to be quite pleasant. I went to Mississippi Suds Laundromat just across the river in Lansing, Iowa.

It was a pretty little town…

and not what I think of when I picture Iowa. I was glad to enjoy the scenery, since it’s always hard to part from friends.