We're headed West....well, very slowly!!!  Our next stop after Milton has been Prairie du Chien, WI. We have been camped along the Mississippi River for the last four days, and it has been a good stay here. The weather has been pleasantly warm, but low humidity!!  That is a good thing!!  We have had the a/c off at night and the windows open, and all 5 of us have slept well.  This is a very old town, founded as early as 1673 when Marquette & Joliet established a fur trade settlement, making this the second oldest town in Wisconsin.  The river itself is still high, the locals say, but not like when we crossed it earlier in our trip.  In fact, it looks pretty impressive still; it is flowing pretty fast here, and there are a lot of pleasure craft out on the water.  Our campground has a marina, and we are parked beside it, and have been enjoying that.  In fact, we are just off a dock to a fresh water lake....and Maddy has been swimming 3-4 times!  She just heads for the lake if we don't watch her close.  Another part of this complex is a 9-hole golf course which we played und one morning.  The town also has a Cabela's here (very close to our park) and, of course, we had to visit it!!! There are museums and other historic sites here, which we've visited, and a great park just across the river in Iowa. It is Pikes Peak State Park...named after the same Pike of the peak in Colorado Springs, CO that we saw last spring.  The view of the Mississippi River from here is pretty spectacular. We could also see where the Wisconsin River flows into it.  But we leave the Mississippi tomorrow, on our way West.