Once we left the casino last Tuesday, we drove to Amana Colonies and stayed 3 nights at the Amana Colonies RV Park. We arrived and after setting up we watch the sky's getting dark. Just about the time our weather radio was going off, the wind started blowing and we just barely got our awning put away before running to the clubhouse. We were there for about an hour before the wind began to let up. It did continue to rain, however, the wind was not bad.
Wednesday we drove over to West Branch to visit the Hoover Library. I wasn't born when he was President but I knew that he was President when the stock market crashed in 1929. But I did not know what a great humanitarian he was. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in mining engineering. They were in London when Germany attacked France starting WWI and he was instrumental in getting over 100,000 stranded Americans back to the United States. He was head of the American Relief Administration (which later became UNICEF) and organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia. You can read more at http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/herberthoover/
This is the house where he was born.
This was the blacksmith shop his father owned.
We left the RV park on Friday and drove to Forest City. We are at the Winnebago Factory where we are having some minor repairs done on the motorhome. There have been quite a few coming in over the weekend. There must be 10 motorhomes here waiting for service. Some of them are almost brand new!! There is a 2005 Journey and when Ed asked the owner what was wrong, he replied that it was easier to tell what was right!! Knock on wood, we have never had anything major wrong with this motorhome.
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