Holy Cow!  These pics actually loaded how I wanted them to!  We went next to Dubuque, Iowa to see my cousin Ann and her husband, Jim.  Ann is the older sister to Bob and Jean.  We stayed in Wisconsin next to a dairy farm and watched the cows graze day and night. dubuque is on the western shor of the mighty Mississippi River and was home to boatyards which made these giant paddle wheel boats.  This is one in front of the Mississippi museum and aquarium. mark got to live out another fantasy as a riverboat pilot along with Sam Clemons.   This is the smokestack and boiler for a steam engine.  See the signs in front for scale. Burial mounds over 2000 years old were found in East Dubuque.  This is in Illinois where we went on to the town of Galena, home of U. S. Grant and 17 other Civil war generals.  Ann and Jim, it was a pleasure seeing you again!  Love to all the Brimm’s and Pfaff’s!