When we visited Field of Dreams, we stayed at a nearby county park called 'New Wine.' Great name ... very nice park. We had it almost to ourselves.
I especially like it when there's a trail in the woods.
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| From Geeks on Tour 200906 (June) |
Next stop was the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, and we found another county park, called Mud Lake, right on the river.
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| From Geeks on Tour 200906 (June) |
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| From Geeks on Tour 200906 (June) |
A note about the photos in this blog: I first upload photos to my Picasa Web Album, then I select the ones I want and embed them in this blog. If you click on the link below the photo, it will take you to the album for this month. There are quite a few more photos in the album than what I add to the blog. If you click on a picture, instead of the link below it, you will see the larger sized photo from the Web Album - you will need to click 'Back' to come back here.
We went to Dubuque to see the Mississippi River museum. We heard that it is quite worthwhile and they were right.
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| From Geeks on Tour 200906 (June) |
This exhibit demonstrated how the river floods. You could see the water level for the 1927 flood and how it would be over the bridge.
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| From Geeks on Tour 200906 (June) |
Jim tried his hand at the controls of a barge pilot simulator. One tug pushes 22,500 TONS on up to 15 barges. They don't move very fast or respond very quickly to the controls.
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| From Geeks on Tour 200906 (June) |
I enjoyed learning about the issues of cargo transportation. The grain from Iowa farmland gets loaded on these barges and they go downriver to New Orleans where they're loaded onto ocean going freighters bound for other continents. What takes 4 barges = 15 train cars or 60 trucks. River transportation is obviously the least expensive, but the river and surrounding environment suffers. So much to learn. I always feel overwhelmed when I visit museums like this.
Next comes Herbert Hoover museum in West Branch.
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