The November issue of Midwest Gaming & Travel includes an exerpt from my Quad Cities Travel Guide. While most of their content centers on casinos, their magazine also include an article or two for travelers. For the November issue, they ran exerpts from the history section of the travel guide.
Would you buy a book from this guy? Hey. Did you know that I now have two travel guides in print for the Mississippi Valley? (You can buy them here.) The second book (covering the Mississippi from Lansing to LeClaire) rolled off the printing press in late October. A couple of weeks ago,
Lansing to LeClaire book cover The second book went to the printer this week. Yea! This book will cover about 170 miles of Mississippi River real estate (on both banks) stretching from LeClaire, Iowa/Rapids City, Illinois to the Blackhawk Bridge at Lansing, Iowa. I'll have more to say about the book later.
I'm in La Crosse for an hour or so to catch up on some notes before driving another hour to meet up with friends. This being the first weekend of OktoberFest, the streets are packed with people walking from the Fest grounds to the downtown bars (and back). Amazingly, I haven't seen anyone fall down
Even when I have a bad day, my job now is infinitely better than sitting behind a desk, at least for me. I get to explore parks and public lands along the Mississippi, including many that are not well-known. Sometimes I find great views, sometimes a quiet place, but I usually can count on a
Camping at Nelson Dewey State Park I’ve had two chances to camp this summer at Nelson Dewey State Park near Cassville, Wisconsin, the park that is named for Wisconsin’s first governor. Dewey was a remarkable man. He gave up a cushy gig in the family lawyering business to go west, became rich through
