Tom Biehl and Daughter Dawn
Tom Biehl, Diann & Tom
Tom & Tom
Daughter Dawn, Riley, Jensen, Diann & Sydney
Dawn at Burlington downtown City Park Fountain
Dawn, Kevin and family
Another Street Rod, Tom just manages to find.
Friday 9/4 our friend Tom Biehl delivered our daughter Dawn and her family as promised from Quad Cities to Keokuk. Thank you Tom for your generosity. We had a great time catching up before Tom ventured back to the Quad Cities.
The Keokuk Yacht Club was having an annual Labor Day festivity and invited us to join them for a cook your own steak dinner. All of us enjoyed the cook out as well as the warm friendly hospitality extended by the members of Keokuk Yacht Club.
Today’s itinerary was a short run up to Burlington Yacht Club. The current has subsided to a more tolerable pace providing a much more relaxed cruise than the last few days. The bridge clearances are still reduced by high water and today’s RR bridges were required to open for us to pass under them. Trains were scheduled on both bridges and we had to wait a few minutes for trains to pass the bridges before opening. All three of the kids spent time steering the boat and learning the electronics.
Our good friends Steve and Liz Kemper are also here at Burlington’s Bluff Harbor. Tomorrow’s goal is departure at daybreak for a 60 mile run to Fairport, IA plus we have to pass through 3-locks. The commercial traffic has increased dramatically since the river closing this past week for dredging at Hannibal, MO. The channel has since opened up and the backed up traffic is now moving north and south. We are dropping Dawn, Kevin and family off at Fairport tomorrow evening hopefully before dusk.
It has been fun with the grandkids, Dawn and Kevin and we are glad it worked out to connect. It is always difficult to make this work out with timing, location and logistics, but I think we can call this a success story. Everyone is having a very relaxed good time.
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