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“Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi” Aboard the Minnesota Centennial Showboat St. Paul, MN May 2, 2012 (Wed) Join Southwest Tour & Travel for a new musical based on Mark Twain’s Classic, Life on the Mississippi. This wonderful performance will be aboard the Minnesota Centennial Showboat docked on the Mississippi River at Harriet Island in St. Paul. In this new musical Young Samuel Clemens leaves home to learn steamboat piloting in 1858 and begins the most joyous time of his life, navigating his way from boy to man and from Samuel Clemens ...Read More »
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Our Guests arrived home to icy roads and 2o degrees, when they left this morning it was 60 degrees what a change!Read More »
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Day 3 Today we celebrated a birthday, an anniversary and the fact that temperatures reached 90 degrees, 20 degrees above normal and tying an all-time record. The scenery got steadily more rolling as we moved from the foothills of the Appalachians into the Allegheny Mountains. We traveled 12 miles in West Virginia and then into Pennsylvania. We enjoyed seeing a covered bridge, hillside farms, Pennsylvania-style barns with louvers for windows, miles of forest, curving highways, and a steady, colorful array of blossoming trees and bushes. At the highest ...Read More »
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Day 4 Our John Deere packages are stowed away and we are anxious to get back to Minnesota to share our John Deere memories with our family and friends. Day 3 A guide Rock Island Arsenal tour gave us interesting information on how this Arsenal has played an integral part in military history. A visit to the Isabel Bloom Studio where the make one of a kind sculptures and free time for shopping in LeClaire, IA made for a full day. Day 2 This morning our first stop was at the John Deere Harvester plant where they make the huge JD combines. The one on ...Read More »
