The area has trees for shade, and many sites are not level, but since this area was mostly empty, Hank found a nice level one that he could pull into. Interstate 80 is right behind us so the traffic noise is very loud, but inside Little House, the noise from the A/C s drown out a lot of the road noise. We can see the Cedar River from our campsite.
There are 4 casinos within a 35 mile radius of our location, and on Thursday we visited the Rhythms Casino in Davenport.
The facility appears fairly new with a hotel and the usual amenities including a very good buffet restaurant. A large area of the casino in non-smoking which is always nice. With our player's card bonuses, we received a buffet discount and enjoyed a delicious lunch. Hank got $5 free play because it is his birthday month, and he won a little at the slots and I lost a little.. Our 2018 casino tour has begun!
Thursday afternoon and again on Friday, Selene finished getting the dirty laundry out of the way. Friday we enjoyed seeing the holiday crowd arrive as they manuevered into campsites, setting up their supplies and preparing meals.The campground quickly filled up. We were very glad we had arrived on Wednesday before the holiday hubbub.
Yesterday, Saturday, we had the pleasure of meeting up with Howard and Linda Payne.
The Paynes are fulltimers, originally from Louisville, KY who have become well-known in RV circles for their educational rallies, RV show seminar talks, and their website( http://www.rv-dreams.com/ that is full of information on RV life and their adventures. We met them at one of their rallies in Tennessee in 2011 when we first started thinking about becoming fulltimer RVers. The knowledge we gained at that time confirmed our desire to pursue the lifestyle and we attended another of their rallies after we went fulltime to learn even more. They were traveling east on I-80 yesterday and we arranged to meet at Gramma's Kitchen next to the world's largest truck stop about 17 miles from us.
Our lunch was very good and it was great to share time with the Paynes!
After our lunch and good-byes to Linda and Howard, we took a non-interstate drive to downtown Tipton, which is 5 miles from our campground, but ended up being over an hour away from our lunch stop. There aren't too many paved roads around here in rural Iowa once you're off the interstate, so we had slow travel on the many gravel farm roads we had to travel to Tipton (population 3300). After a grocery stop at the local market, we headed back to the campground, this time on paved Hwy. 38.
The weather has suddenly turned to summer here with highs in the low 90's, higher than normal for this area in late May. Thunderstorms rolled through overnight on Friday with heavy rain, but no problems. We'll be here until Wednesday when we're heading further west. If we're lucky, it will be a little cooler for our next travel day.
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