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Hi,
The last time I wrote was about the Lincoln Museum in Springfield. On Thursday we went to the Illinois Museum. Interesting, but didn't have much we hadn't seen in other museums. We enjoyed our dinner in a chain--very good, but not one I'd heard of before--Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurants. If you ever happen upon one of them, we recommend it for the food, even though the place was too big to feel very personal.
Friday we drove to Davenport, IA, and the only thing we did was eat dinner out at Biaggi's, which we like. Another chain. We haven't seen many eating establishments in Davenport that look particularly interesting, except some right down by the Mississippi, where we don't feel like going again.
Today we were tourists. First we visited the 80 Truck Museum, which has trucks of all sorts starting from about 1918 through the 1960's or so. Interesting, but I'm sure we would have gotten a lot more out of it if we had known anything about trucks before we started. When it told us that this vehicle had a particular kind of engine or that kind of gears, it meant nothing to us. Got some interesting pictures, though. This one is a mail truck/snowmobile, designed to deliver mail in the mountains.
Then we went to the main branch of the public library and spent some time looking around there. We walked about 2 or 3 blocks to the river, and there is still flooding. This morning's report said it was at 15' flood stage, down from 20' yesterday, but the last block or so is still underwater. Note that the light is green, but I wouldn't go there.
