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hcbph Took a little road trip this week
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Took a little road trip - vacation this week. Took the wife and Vette down to the Amana Colonies for a few days. It's 7 colonies in Iowa that's pretty much a visitors site now, it was a communal area till about 50 years ago. They still have things like the Woolen Mill, Furniture Shop and various other wineries etc. you can go through most every place. There's all kinds of little stores, shops and museums you can visit.

Car ran perfect till it was time to go home. I'd forgotten to turn off the interior lights the night before as I normally don't turn them on but it was raining banshees and needed to find some stuff inside when we got back to the B&B. Had to get a jump but once running it ran again like a champ all the way home. The rain was a bit of a disappointment but we had places we could go and the convertible didn't melt :-).

We stayed at a B&B that once was the stagecoach station for the area, nice place. If you're into this type of spot to spend some time, Check out the Amana Colonies along I80 West of Iowa City, Iowa. You may already have heard of them, that's where the Amana Appliances (Like Amana Radar Range) were built for years till Raytheon bought the company.
Posted on: 2015/8/21 11:43
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pianoguy Re: Took a little road trip this week
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Sounds like a great getaway!
Posted on: 2015/8/21 12:16
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TommyT-Bone Re: Took a little road trip this week
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Sounds like a great escape.
Posted on: 2015/8/21 12:37
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Ultraman Re: Took a little road trip this week
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We visited there some years back......nice stuff they have......easy to spend money on quality stuff......
Posted on: 2015/8/21 13:30
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hcbph Re: Took a little road trip this week
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...easy to spend money on quality stuff......


Without a doubt, watch the wife and the credit cards :-)
I love visiting the Furniture Shop for the clocks and Shanz Furniture for everything else. You can spend $10K in either place in the blink of an eye. Used to live just north of there, so I have been down there a lot in years past but haven't made it down much since moving here and this was the first time for the Vette.

Posted on: 2015/8/21 13:55
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Sounds like a nice trip....but where are the pictures?
Posted on: 2015/8/21 22:39
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hcbph Re: Took a little road trip this week
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Sounds like a nice trip....but where are the pictures?


My SD card reader is acting up on me, it's not reading the card though the pictures show on the camera. I have to get them into the computer as the pictures are in raw format. I didn't take a lot of pictures but there's a few there. May have to get a new card reader if I don't get this one working again.
Posted on: 2015/8/22 1:28
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I apparently lost a bunch of the pictures trying to get the other SD Card reader to work. I got a new one today and saved what I could

http://s162.photobucket.com/user/hcbph/slideshow/Amana%20Colonies
Posted on: 2015/8/22 16:41
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teebee Re: Took a little road trip this week
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Looks like something I would enjoy.
Posted on: 2015/8/26 23:45
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