Winterset, Iowa

Good evening!

We are in Winterset, Iowa arriving yesterday late afternoon. The weather is warm, humid and muggy!

Winterset is nationally known as John Wayne's birthplace and also to all my quilter friends, Fons and Porter's "hometown".....

We left North Platte yesterday around 6:45 AM and traveled most of the day..... going through Omaha to Winterset. Omaha's highway's overpasses where the road connects from the overpass are to be desired! We hit big bumps and more bumps, one time even causing the elec. system to do "something"...... so this am Bill checked the batteries and found that a wire had shorted out on one of the corroded battery cables....so off to town to buy 2 new batteries. We were lucky nothing completely shorted out and stopped right on the interstate. So he was busy with that all morning and early afternoon.

Nancy and I went to Fons and Porter this am and also some other stores.... Fons and Porter had all of their fabric and of course all the "gadgets" they sell. It was a small store and in the back was the customer service dept. of the company. We visited with the clerk for awhile and enjoyed that. She told us that Liz is retiring and moving to Texas but keeping her house in Winterset. Her daughter is joining or going to join the company now. This is a really neat town of about 5,000 and the town has a town square with a huge courthouse in the center. They have a huge Ben Franklin store that has just about a little of everything in it. They have a huge fabric dept. which has great fabric!

We mapped out our route this afternoon in the cool of our rig... the humidity is really great here. Bill said the park supervisor stopped by this am and told him that this is very unusual with the humidity being so high. A lady downtown said they had 7" of rain last week and it rained daily last week so everything is really water saturated. Iowa is really pretty and has many rolling hills full of cornfields which are really really green! The farms are so nice and very neat looking.

Tomorrow we head to Spring Green, Wisconsin for a couple of days to scout around there!
Stay tuned!
Until next time!
BJ