It has been hot and muggy for quite a while. The cure is to sit under the air conditioning or go for a ride and use the car air.

Yesterday we used the car air and took a trip of about 200 miles (round trip) south along the Great River Road. That is along the Mississippi River. The river is getting wider and has several Lock and Dam's along the way. We stopped at Lock #6 and watched a tug going thru so it could catch up with the 6 barges it was pushing up river. The barges had been towed thru first as the lock is not long or wide enough for all at the same time. The lock was only a lift of about 2 feet in water depth. It does not seem possible but I thought they said the river depth was 9feet. The river is very wide and lazy.

The trip was very pretty and good turn out's for viewing the river and taking pictures was good. It was a beautiful day and about 90 degrees. Lots of sunshine and that was nice as we have had lots of clouds and storms. We were gone about 6 hours.

It was nice to be back on the road even if only by car.

We are still waiting for mail that was sent from Livingston, Tx the 15th of July. This is crazy. It was sent priority mail What ever that means. We shall wait for mail next time instead of forwarding. That seems to be the problem. When it reaches the destination from the first sending, it then comes out of priority mail and goes regular mail, and from what they tell me it could then take 7 working days.
But then we are very lucky we even have mail. It could have gone by donkey.

Bingo, we have mail and can be on the move again. The mail arrived on saturday the 7th of August. What a trial. I will not forward mail again. Better to let it go back and then resend for it.

We should be on the move tomorrow the 10th. Not sure what will be the next stop. Will make that decision at the time. We have very much enjoyed or stay in Wisconsin with friends but as always the hitch-itch gets us that travel.