Davenport, IA: We are alongside in Davenport, one of the Quad Cities group. The four are Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa and Rock Island and Moline in western Illinois. The river is the border between the two states.
There is a lot less recreational boating here than in Dubuque, not certain why. It could be because the area is more urban and industrial.
It is a breezy Saturday and the weather did look a bit like rain earlier, but it never materialized. We are doing some laundry this afternoon. The ship has a guest laundry and provides both detergent pods and dryer sheets for our use.
My TA - Steve - from when I first taught at SacState, became a friend I stayed in touch with. He graduated and went to work for the Army as a civilian systems analyst.
He was sent here to Rock Island Arsenal for training, after which he was posted to Letterkenny Army Depot, in Chambersburg, PA, where he worked till he retired. We visited him and his wife there when we lived in the DC area for a couple of years. Sadly I’ve outlived him by a decade or more.
