Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Day 24 June 22 to Maquoketa, Iowa







milage 307
total milage 7170

camping fee $5

What an emotional day. Linda B. and Her husband Duke picked me up at 7:30 and off we went. There were 3 places that I remembered, Grandmas' house, the gas station (owned by Ed Bs' grampa) and the soda fountain :)

Grandma's house is gone, the gas station has been replaced by another one. But the soda fountain is there and just like I remember! It was restored 2-3 years ago. We then went to the cemetary and I saw where my grampa and grandma Milam were, and I was told that my great grampa Milam is buried in the same plot but with no headstone. My grampa had two headstones one from the military and one from the family. Also saw my great grampa Buttons grave. And Rene and Herbs (buried by the Milams). Very awesome.

Oh I also got to meet another cousin Linda C and her husband Bob, who gave his first cup of morning coffee, nice guy.

As I was getting ready to leave town a Goldwing group rode up (to get something to eat of course) and told me about a covered bridge to nowhere, so I went to see it and some of the evidence of the flooding there. On the way back the geneology society was open so I went in. I found some more pictures of grampa Milam and some info on grampa Button so I was very pleased when I left.

There was an auction going on so I watched that a bit and then left town around 12:30

I went thru Eastern Iowa, flooding everywhere, and found a dry camp in the Maquoketa city park, very nice. They let me set up under a pavillion incase of storms but it was dry. Got some nice pictures of the stormy sky at sunset.

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