Doing Dubuque

You see some strange sights driving around this part of America, like this four armed biker..

You'd have thought we'd have learnt a lesson from our visit to Gary, Indiana. Don't visit a place just because you can!

"We're right next door to Iowa up here in Galena," I said to Grumpy this morning. "We could notch up another state before going home."

(It's my ambition to visit all 50 states, and to date we've only done 20).

"How about Dubuque?" he said. "That's only 20 miles away, right over the border."

So we left our idyllic hotel to drive across the rolling green hills to the Mississippi. Imediately over the bridge we were in Iowa, and Dubuque.

Let me say now, if anyone is reading this and thinking of going there. Don't bother. It has very few redeeming features and on a Sunday none at all because all the stores are closed.