Saturday Evening

You spend all day in the back of THE astrovan, and you end up in Davenport Iowa. The world is truly flat out here.

We managed to drive through a line that had a signficant amount of rain in it. The weather service was reporting some rotation just to the south of I80 as we drove through it. The purple box is the tornado watch box and the round circle to the north east is the our GPS location.

The hotel is on the north side of Davenport. Dave and I go for a walk at about 9:30pm. Partly cloudy and very humid.... and, no sidwalks to be found. We cut our walk short in fear of being hit like a deer and headed back to the hotel via the gas station. No Dairy Queen to be found, so we put up with an ice cream from the freezer. I guess they are still allowed to smoke in enclosed places here.

As we walk outside we listen to a couple who are driving a loaded pickup truck talking about the burnt out headlight. Apparently the headlight is burned out due to the deer they must have hit at about 45mph. Her last words as she lights her cigarette "he must be dead...there is blood everywhere".