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Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-21-2016, 11:15 PM
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Posted By Iowa Dave
About 15 years ago the Iowa dept of...

About 15 years ago the Iowa dept of transportation initiated a program every August that taught snow plow driving techniques and safe operation. The second half of the second day was reserved for the...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-21-2016, 06:27 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Steering

Hi Alf
Thanks for the bus driving tip. It makes a lot of sense. It takes practice to learn how
to operate about anything. When the Dutch Elm Disease was cooking we cut down a lot of them. To keep...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-21-2016, 09:22 AM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Glasses

What? You heard about my Torque Wrench reading challenges at the Mississippi River Ralley? I was only about 30 when I made my famous Ralph Kramden imitation. Did not need cheaters back then. "Boom,...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-21-2016, 08:54 AM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Hi Jim Was that auto correct or Freudian ...

Hi Jim
Was that auto correct or Freudian Fixable or Flxible . We had one that we obtained from the transit department when I was with the Parks and Rec dept in Council Bluffs. They used it for...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-20-2016, 08:37 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
This guy my brother worked with had a 318...

This guy my brother worked with had a 318 originally in his Travco, but some came
With 440s so the fit wasn't that hard to do, the cavity was there. I camped next to a
Travco at Yellow River state...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-20-2016, 07:30 PM
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Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
A friend of my brothers got ahold of a Travco ...

A friend of my brothers got ahold of a Travco
and pretty much disassembled it. He built up a big Dodge engine like a
440 and has it just about done including a new custom gel coat paint job.
He's...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-20-2016, 06:01 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Sunday Driver

Took a drive today to a state park about 30 miles east of our home. Drove the campground. It's about a 1973 GMC Birchaven. Looked to be in nice shape for 40+ Years old.
The cottage is on a rock...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-19-2016, 09:32 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
The corn is in

These three bins are well known in our county. They belong to my neighbor/ farmer. This year he put about 100 acres in a pheasant restoration set aside program adjacent to my yard. We're hearing a...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-04-2016, 08:59 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Robert, you are correct. We were coming back home...

Robert, you are correct. We were coming back home after the rally at Osoyoos last spring and discussing where to stay that night. There was a large sign that indicated Glacier was only about 40...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-02-2016, 02:47 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Bears

I totally agree that if a bear wants in, he will succeed . As most campers using public campgrounds in areas where there are bears, the managing agencies have become quite proactive in informing...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 11-02-2016, 10:06 AM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
A Escape would be easier.

We pulled into this campground on the way back from Osoyoos. A pickup pulled in with what looked to me to be a utility rack for hauling lumber or pipe or whatever. A little later I walked a couple...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-27-2016, 10:16 AM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Of all the rocky points with all the good looking...

Of all the rocky points with all the good looking red and white lighthouses, you had to post one I didn't know.
Dave
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-26-2016, 02:55 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Ash borer

While we have Emerald Ash Borer in Iowa and in Benton County, this tree had been in decline for the past ten years that I've lived here. An 85 mph wind took a big piece of it a few years ago and then...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 11:55 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
The old man can stihl do it.

Coondominium had to go. It was a big ash tree. Where, our back yard
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 10:52 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Why do I roam?

Sometimes I wonder why I roam.
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 10:41 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Sequoia sempervirens ( Redwood)

Post 271, you're close enough for me. Del Norte unit of Redwood National
park. Great camping, but tough on solar, Roosevelt Elk, great ocean views, Avenue of the Giants. We stopped on our way to the...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 10:15 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Pretty site

Nope, not Olympic. Although that's real pretty too. You have to understand that as a career public parks guy, I take pics of trash cans, picnic tables, fire rings and yes dump stations and restrooms,...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 09:31 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Wouldn't post

Wouldn't post
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 09:13 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Prettiest dump station ever

Title says it all, there's only one like it.
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 09:12 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Harry Potter tree

Right you are on both counts, location and the heavy dew we experienced at the potluck
Dave
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 08:59 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Needles

You are on the gas tonight. You are right, we've been through a number of these, this is my favorite. I cornered a mountain goat here once to see if he would run through the tunnel. Nope, he , lucky...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 08:47 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
No just any sunrise

Some of you were here with us but were you awake or still sleepin it off?
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 08:41 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
No trailers allowed

Rita and I have driven this road and tunnel several times. It is marked no trailers. The genius who stuck his Motorhome part way through probably thought that since he did not have a trailer he would...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-25-2016, 07:22 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Big Walleye

Adrian,
I thought #199 was at Baudette but wasn't sure. About 40 years ago I was into walleye fishing in Minnesota and had fished Lake of the Woods a couple days. Whenever we came across one of the...
Forum: Trips and Travel Planning 10-24-2016, 11:02 PM
Replies: 404
Views: 41,923
Posted By Iowa Dave
Yes it is Robert. The Red Canyon Road south out...

Yes it is Robert. The Red Canyon Road south out of Custer is pretty interesting and worth the drive.
While Iowa does not have the oldest covered bridges, it does have some of the most famous in...
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