Summer 2007 in NE Iowa

The Schafer family takes their second annual tour of backroads and Iowa culture.  This year's destinations included Dyersville, Guttenburg, Balltown, Dubuque, and Bellevue.

Wow, they have playgrounds in Dyersville too!

Margaret enjoys the "whisper cones"

Nothing runs like a Deere (at the Farm Toy Museum)

Amy and Margaret over the Mississippi in Guttenburg

Daddy draws "three queens" on a Mississippi riverboat

Full steam ahead!

Did he say left button and right lever or right button and left lever??

Enjoying the Mississippi from a dredge boat.

I forgot my sunscreen so I'll stick to the shade

The Mississippi River Museum

Two cool chicks at the Mines of Spain (in Dubuque)

If American Gothic were a small church in the woods.

Now THATS an ice cream cone about my size

"Barn in the USA.  I was barn in the USA."

Margaret and Amy ride the world's shortest and steepest railroad.

I'm on the top of the bluffs looking down on creation...