Geocaching was "necessary" in both Iowa and Illinois today as Ed hasn't geocached in either state. The caches in Iowa weren't exciting but Ed found a cute one in Illinois.

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Up,Up, 'N Away A rope was untied so the cache could be lowered. After signing the log the cache was hoisted up again and the rope looped around the tree and tied.

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There wasn't a lot of exciting scenery but we did cross the Mississippi River.

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and we saw lots of construction today.

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We started today in Iowa and ended up in Michigan driving through Illinois and Indiana.

We stopped for the night in Saugatuck, Michigan which is on Kalamazoo lake. We had dinner on an outside patio by the water.

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The view from our table.

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I don't think I've ever seen this many blossoms on a tree.