Decided to return to Denver where at an early dinner plan was to meet my friend John Emerson. But first the trip thru Rock Island and Davenport, and the Figge Art Museum
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| The Kickapoo Slu |
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| A stereogram of an installation at Figge |
Venturing into one of many "scenic byways"* Lincoln Highway lead me to Tipton Iowa. I arrived just a few days after Mayor Pete gave Tipton a stump speech on his plan for rural America.
* The Lincoln Highway known by early travelers no longer exists. Completed in 1912, originally it connected one small town or city to another along Route 30 between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Liberty Bell. But how can that be as the Bridge wasn’t completed until 1938? Today Route 30 in Iowa I experienced it as a highway bypass route designed to avoid small towns. Quaint signs alerting drivers to the original LH path are scenic
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| Tipton IA |
In 2011 we stopped to visit Grinnell College as the iPad revealed several tennis courts. Driving onto the campus we found the courts and played our usual rallying game. As we returned to the Swanky Tank we noticed another Sprinter campervan pulling up next to us. It turned out to be newly purchased by the two women who jumped out eager to talk RV's. They were partners both involved in the Athletic program at Grinnell. We had a nice chat whereupon one asked if we'd like to take showers and visit the new $15,000,000 athletic facility? In 1975 we learned that board.member Warren Buffett got Grinnell into a leveraged buyout of a Dayton OH network television station and other investments hiking the tiny college's (1500 then; 1700 students now) endowment to more than $ 2 billion. Nice guy, that Buffett.
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 Pickle Ball at a Park in Omaha. The reliable site to find a game anywhere is: www.places2play.org (Add two more nights into Denver)
On a warm Denver evening John Emerson and I met for dinner to catch up. I'd hired him after he'd finished an MBA at Cal Berkeley to work in Marketing for WebScheduler, a business I still operate today. Hiring John was a lucky stroke in my business life. He added ideas to a nascent Internet business that remain central to our operations today.
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| Leaving Ft. Collins |
Lake Tahoe
and on to Sunflower RV in Ogallala NE, Denver on August 24th, Fort Collins, Evanston WY, Park City (sushi), Reno (lost $200), Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, home.
