Life Along the Mississippi, cont'd
©2013 Text & Photos by LeeZard Saturday September 7 – Keokuk, Iowa-Caledonia, Minnesota With the exception of some high speed U.S. Highway driving today, I will be mostly on county and state roads running parallel to, but several miles away from, the Mississippi River. This is still Iowa and, except for the occasional “corn fed” beef on the hoof, it is again cornfield after cornfield, interrupted by the occasional cornfield. I still prefer it to freeway/interstate driving. As I near the Minnesota state line the straight roads and cornfields begin to give way to more S-curves, hills, thick stands of trees and then forest. The occasional farm always a presence as well. Sunday September 8 – Caledonia, Minnesota-La Crosse, Wisconsin My plan for today doesn’t include a trip back across the Mississippi River to La Crosse, WI but as I survey downtown Caledonia, MN this morning it dawns on me that I’ve seen and written about too many Caledonia’s; towns with populati...