Today is my granddaughter Molly's sixteenth birthday. I remember the first time I held her, and it certainly doesn't seem that long ago! It's also my Aunt Iris's birthday (somewhat more than sixteenth....). I called and wished both of them happy birthdays.
The thunderstorms continued all through the night last night, so we wondered if we'd be afloat when we woke up. It rained the entire time we were packing up to leave. Fortunately, we have really good rain jackets just for this contingency, and the area around the rig was hard packed gravel. As we drove out of the park, we noticed that the sites we had first looked at were pretty much underwater.
We left the Warsaw City Park on the banks of the Mississippi and headed north, only to be stopped in our tracks by a "road closed" sign. Fortunately, a friendly local man in a pickup offered to lead us on an alternate route, so we followed him. We made a stop in Macomb, IL, where we took our morning walk. It turns out that Macomb is a university town, so we saw lots of student rental housing.
We stopped for the night at a Walmart in Rockford, IL, about seven and a half hours after we left Warsaw. That's a pretty long travel day for us, but we wanted to have a shorter drive tomorrow. We went from camping at Goose Landing this morning to camping near these geese tonight. When Ken was taking pictures of them, one lady rolled down her window and said, "There are more of them all the time!" I guess the area must be overrun with geese. This group had a bunch of half grown goslings.
We had lunch in a shopping center parking lot in Galesburg, IL, where we also bought diesel for $3.97 and considered ourselves lucky, since it was $4.19 in Warsaw. We stopped later at a Flying J to get a propane tank filled.
We picked up some groceries at Walmart tonight, but we had to use our Visa card, because our Advantage Mastercard was rejected as an invalid card. We called Citibank and were told there was no problem at their end, so it must be the vendor's system....
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