Re: Wyoming Trip Report (May-Jun 2025)

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:31:09 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

 On 7/1/2025 8:01 AM, Ted Heise wrote:

Final installment.

 

On day 15 we crossed Iowa, ending up at Fairport State
Recreation Area right on the Mississippi just west of
Davenport.  It was a nice final campsite, it had a bath house
and we could see the river from our trailer.

 
 You'd think you planned this trip with fishing in my looking at
 where you always ended up.  ;-) 

LOL  no   For whatever reason, it just doesn't interest me that
much.  Though I do like seeing the water.

         ...That's a nice area.  Brother of mine went to
 Augustana College just up the road in Rock Island.

I recall stumbling across a very good barbecue place just north of
Davenport many years ago.  Seems like it was called Pelican Pete's
or something like that.  It was right on the river.  Checked table
cloths.  I've searched (online) for it a few times in the past few
years and always come up empty.

Speaking of good BBQ, on our relatively frequent travels across
Illinois (to get from Indiana to Nebraska) we really like stopping
at Black Dog Smoke & Ale in Champaign, if the time allows (and
lines up with mealtime).

Speaking of drives to Nebraska, my wife and I decided just last
week to move back to Nebraska (we lived there until 1997 when we
moved to Indiana for my career).  Now that I'm retired, we're
going home.  As a plus, it'll be a shorter drive to the Rockies
and the Southwest.  :)

      ...I got throwed out of a bar there one night.

Okay, that's more we have in common.  Though my bad old days of
alcoholic drinking are behind me, thankfully.

In the end I liked state parks as much if not more than the
commercial places.  Though they usually had only electric,
that was okay and I could dump and fill tanks when needed. 
As a plus, they were generally not full, so I felt as if I
could wing it a bit more (i.e., not have all the stops planned
out ahead of time).

 
 Could just be wishful thinking, but the state parks seem to
 have just a little bit bigger sites, too.  I agree with you on
 only having electric, too.  That also probably helps keep them
 less crowded because some people just have to be hooked up.

Interesting.  Now that you mention it, the sites do seem a bit
less sardined in than the typical commercial CG.  Good point about
no FHU keeping out some folks.

 Anyway, appreciate you posting about your journey.  I enjoyed
 reading them and it kept me in the RVing mood while mine was in
 the shop.

You're welcome, least I can do in return for all the advice I've
gotten here!

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA