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The Great MS River Road – Return to MN from St Louis

The Cedar Journal November 27, 2019

Two weeks had passed by while I had spent some time with each of my adult sons, first in St Louis with the oldest and his wife and then in Georgia with my youngest.

The original plan was to explore the river all the way down the western side to St Louis but when I got detoured in Davenport that plan quickly went out the window. I had also planned to go straight to Minnesota by passing the river on my return trip as I headed to a volunteer work project in Northern Minnesota. I headed back towards the Mississippi River Road on highway 61 North of St Louis. I had one day to pick up the portion of the missed route and get to my B&B in Cedar Rapids, IA.

The Great MS River Road- Iowa to IL – Day 5

The Cedar Journal November 21, 2019

Five days? To drive from Minnesota to St Louis? Are you sure you are giving yourself enough time?” the words of this discussion played over and over in my head on day five of this journey.

The Great MS River Road – Dubuque, Iowa – Day 4

The Cedar Journal November 18, 2019

I headed into Iowa along the Great Mississippi River Road. Fields of Opportunities is the Iowa slogan posted on the state welcome sign. Unsure what that really means but since I have been to Iowa numerous times over my 53 years I knew one thing was certain…fields upon fields of corn and soybeans! Opportunities…well my hope was an opportunity to see a part of Iowa I have never seen before. I accomplished that as soon as I had crossed the boarder into the state.

The Great MS River Road- Winona- Day 4

The Cedar Journal November 13, 2019

I was now clean of the Whitewater State Park mud and back on the road heading towards Winona, Minnesota. This historic town is located along the banks of the Mississippi River and almost every canoe paddler in the world knows the canoes that have made this small town famous: Wenonah Canoes. I was excited to find what this town held for a canoe paddler like myself.

The Great MS River Road- Whitewater State Park – Day 3/4

The Cedar Journal November 11, 2019

I am only on day three of my Great Mississippi River Road trip to St Louis. I made a planned detour off the Great River Road to the west, hopefully to end my fishing season with a trout at Whitewater State Park. I started of my fishing season this year with a catch of my first every rainbow trout. Landing one at the end of the season would just be a perfect way to end my season.

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Starting again

The Cedar Journal November 4, 2019

Hello blog readers of The Cedar Journal. There will be a bit of a delay in this weeks posting due to technical issues I am having with WordPress.

It all started when I saw last week I saw that someone overnight had changed the name of our site. Hubby, always the optimist thinking it was only a glitch, I, who worked for the government for years, fearing the worst as someone hacking our site.

I am working with WordPress on this issue. As today I started to write my blog and the site suddenly lost all my material I had written this morning. Frustration for sure, more like I wanted to throw my computer and the entire blog thing out the window.

I do have other things going on in my life besides rewriting blogs after losing them.

Duh, if only the WordPress people could understand that and figure out what is actually going on.

Then my life will go back to normal of not hating my computer, WordPress and the dark web of hacking.

I need to be in a better place, like learning stuff for my Dutch driving test… ok, also not on my favorite “Things I like to do” list, but I still have to do it!

I hopefully will have this worked out soon and will post a continuation of my Great Mississippi River Road trip.

Part of the fix is that I will not receive email notifications for a while from any of my followers. If it takes me time to respond to any of your comments or emails, I apologize for my delay in advance.

Have you had issues with your blog? How did you resolve? Have the issues ever returned? How responsive was WordPress staff? Share your comments below.

Sleepless in St Louis: A Zombie Story

The Cedar Journal October 31, 2019

My self imposed criteria for not being crazy when I see something strange is to have either a picture or a witness. So this following true as I experienced story, may fit the crazy part as I have no pictures or witnesses. I did have a ton of text message traffic between me, a friend, and the Hubby but in the end none of that fits the criteria.