Striking out in McGregor... and yet...

I went to McGregor to try the chocolate chip cookie pie at the Twisted Chicken. Linda already knew about McGregor and knew there was more to see than pie, even if it's on the list. That's a good thing since the Twisted Chicken was closed. No pie for me!

With that goal now out of reach, Linda showed me around a little more of the community. It has the look of what I'm coming to consider the classic Iowa river town: lots of small but sturdy brick homes and businesses along a few main streets leading to the river's edge. It's a nice formula that makes for some very nice visuals.

On the subject of visuals, the image in the top of the collage shows an example of the early day storage system used in the area: caves. Reading a nearby brochure, we learned that the cool dry caves were commonly used to store foods and gunpowder. These are uncommon in that they have added doors to the front.

Another surprising fact was found on the plaque in this collage: John Ringling was born here! John and his brothers formed the “The Ringling Brothers United Monster Shows, Great Double Circus, Royal European Menagerie, Museum, Caravan, and Congress of Trained Animals" that eventually became known as the Ringling Brothers Circus.