We crossed the river to go to Wisconsin, to Prairie du Chien, a nice little town that is the Oldest Community on the upper Mississippi, we stopped to eat there and went to buy some cheese curds that were to die for.

So if you need a gun and some rum or beer you can get them @ the same stop in this town :O, plus you get to see all the stuffed animals they have in exhibition

After a delicious meal we drove to Cassville to take the ferry that would cross us again to the Iowa side, this was one of my favortie parts of the roadtrip, nothing beats the Mississippi in the afternoon right before the sun sets.  The ferry trip was very interesting too, it well deserves its name The Pride of Cassville!

 

Next stop was Guttenberg, it is the nicest little town, you feel like you are in a storybook!.  And on our way out I saw all these awesome barns, we even stopped so I could get down and photograph one of my faves.

 

And on our way out I saw all these awesome barns, we even stopped so I could get down and photograph one of my faves.

We also stopped on another antique store just outside Guttenberg town with a lot of things, old cameras, bar stuff, they even had an old gas pump that was awesome! Of course we had to try some of the old hats they had for sale!

After leaving Bellevue we drove to the city of Dubuque, it is a larger city with some interesting sights and photo ops too. Taking photos from a moving car is not the always easy and of course I NEVER had on the correct lens to shoot whatever caught my eye but I got some nice photos anyways.

 

One of my favorite part of the road trip was to photograph all the old barns we saw on the way!  I was determined to find the perfect red old barn for a personal project I have in mind, I saw some interesting things along the way.

Our next stop was Balltown. we stopped @ the Breitbach’s Restaurant, it is the oldest food and drinking establishment in Iowa, a super cute place that has a very interesting story, it was stuck by fire twice in 18 months and completely distroyed and rebuilt with the help of the community and the Brietbach family of course.

The view from outside the restaurant was breathtaking!

 

 

There is a small winery right there where I stopped to try some wine and met the owner Joe who told me some great stories about Vegas and his daughter in law from Russia while I sipped some of his wines.