July 9 - Mississippi River (The Great River Road) through Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota

The Great River Road runs right along the Mississippi River through several states.  It's a beautiful drive along the Mighty Mississippi.  Pepin, WI is the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series of books.  I went to the site where she was born, where they've built a reconstruction of the "Little House in the Big Woods".  [Note - the film got off center in the camera, and although the prints from this roll have come out fine, the CD has some half pictures.]
 
 

The first four pictures were taken at an overlook along the Iowa portion of the Great River Road.
	Of course, I needed a picture of the sign marking the Great River Road through Iowa.  :-)  (This particular picture was taken in McGregor, IA.)
The next several pictures were taken at Pike's Peak State Park, named after the same man who is famous for "his" mountain in Colorado.
In the picture directly above, you can see the mouth of the Wisconsin River where it empties into the Mississippi directly in the middle of the picture.
Pepin, WI is a very small, very cute little town that sits along the Mississippi at a place where the River is so wide, it is actually called "Lake Pepin".
	This is it!!  The Little House in the Big Woods!!  :-D
	This is a picture taken from a spot near the Mississippi where I stopped for a sandwhich (at a cheese store recommended to me by my cousins).  I thought it was pretty!