RAGBRAI

The 36th annual RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bike Race Across Iowa) finished up in Leclaire this year.  The Des Moines Register sponsors this bike ride across the state from west to east.  Small Iowa towns host them along the way.   About 13,000 bicyclists ride what they discover is not so flat of a state, dipping [...]

Introduction

 
Welcome to my blog which will entice and entrall you with life on the Upper Mississippi River.  Our cottage is located on Pool 14 between Clinton and Leclaire Iowa.  We are near the Interstate 80 bridge.  This is the view from our dock of the cottage.  Our plan is to take this down within a [...]