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Gallery Main > Jon Meulengracht's album
Casino parking lot on Front Street 0700, 30Aug07
Flight plan to Davenport, Iowa.
Breakfast in Brunswick, Mo.
Between Keokuk and Quincy.
Enroute to the Right Bank, also known around these parts as Illinois. Everyone accounted for except George Caleb Bingham.
Nauvoo, Illinois. Former Mormon settlement on the banks of the Mississippi, just south of Fort Madison. The settlement is being restored from the old building foundations up. Gunmaker John Browning's original shop (1845) is here where everything was made by hand.
Swap meet area at Davenport.
Guaranteed to beat a Harley or your money back. Crocker.
Board track racer.
Scott (Wichita) Hall's Hudson California-or-bust, dust-bowl days replica truck. Hudson didn't make a truck in the 1930's but some people in Oklahoma did.
...and trailer, new in 2007.
Eight-valve Indian board tracker.
One-off, mid-1950's scooter by a Hudson car designer with an Indian V-twin motor.
Glenn Wigglesworth (formerly from KC) buys a Zundapp scooter.
Only Excelsior board track racer in existence.
This one looks like it's powered by an Indian Four and like most, no clutch and no brakes. The race starts when they all get reasonably close together in front of the grandstand.
This period-correct outfit is from the motorcycle museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
2007 winning board tracker
One of Nick's favorites, back again.
Steam tractor at Mt. Pleasant Old Thresher's Reunion about 75 miles SW from Davenport.
Steamboat Gothic architecture, 1899, on the banks of a big bend on the Des Moines River. Pine woodwork and a rosewood Vose grand piano in the lobby. T.S. Eliot was here Sept. 13, 1919. Keosauqua, Iowa. Peters found this one. Highly recommended.
Keosauqua (pop. 1,020) has TWO taverns.
Sunday morning sun coming up over the Des Moines River behind the Hotel Manning, Keosauqua. Nick Vedros Photo.
Heading home. Highways 11 and 15 northeast of Brookfield were made for motorcycles.

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