Road Trip

Yesterday, Bill and I went to eastern Iowa to pick up some trees at Kelly Tree Farm in Clarence where we got all the trees for our grove last spring.  We needed to replace one of ours and Tim wanted some more cedar trees.  He's getting some going north of his house.

I used my new Directory of Iowa's Best Ma & Pa Restaurants that I got from Our Iowa magazine to find a good place to have lunch in a little town along the way, Gwen's Restaurant in Lisbon.  Another one mentioned sounded interesting, the Sutliff Store & Tavern along the Cedar River.  With eastern Iowa having so much rain and having flooding, we drove the extra six miles (one way Bill would say) to see the Sutliff Bridge and the restaurant.  The water was high and flowing fast.   This would be a nice place to be in the summer.  You may notice there are picnic tables on the bridge.

When we were having lunch, we heard the local guys talking about all of the water problems they're dealing with the past couple of days.  We've had about 5" of nice rain in the past few days but here it has been soaking in nicely. 

I'm headed to babysit this morning so will add a little more to this later today.

really neat and long bridge

there are picnic tables on the bridge - would love to walk across it

The Sutliff Store & Tavern

lots of signed dollar bills on the ceiling

The restaurant wasn't fancy at all but reviews I read said that the food is good including their ribs.  I just went in to look around.