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Really Roughing It

8/21/2015

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Yesterday morning became an authentic wilderness experience. In order to replace a defective power post a few sites up from us, they had to turn off the power to the whole campground. What? We can't run the toaster, the percolator shut off, and no microwave! How did those pioneers do it? An hour later, just as I was about to dump the instant oatmeal I had mixed up in favor of cold cereal, the DNR said "Let there be light" and there was. Actually, that's a little over dramatic--we have lights that operate off the battery  and it was a sunny day anyway, but you get the picture.

After that harrowing start, we pulled ourselves together and took a hike to visit some of the caves. There were no dead bodies that we saw but we didn't actually go in any. And to be perfectly accurate, the campground host and hostess are not here right now. Their camper is also missing although there are lights and potted flowers around the site. I hope it wasn't something I said. Or wrote.

Then a little lunch and we took a little trip into Maquoketa to  the legendary Banowetz Antiques and the Costello art gallery. Both are closed down. Again, I hope it wasn't us. We did visit a couple of fun junk shops and a very nice local gallery called the Maquoketa Art Experience. They also recommended the Rose Frantzen works at the Old City Hall Gallery. These were amazing--what we could see, because most of the lights were off and there was no one there. Aren't small towns great?

The perfect weather continued through the evening as we enjoyed supper and a great fire. Today, home to restock and prepare to head to Decorah on Monday and Albert Lea, MN on Wednesday. Busy, busy.



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