I’ve got a couple off days in this quartet of river towns straddling the Mississippi.  Spent much of today doing some fishing in the Rock River.   Lots of activity there!  Pelicans, cormorants, herons, hoards of little minnows that would nibble on your feet if you waded in.  I caught one drum, half a dozen wee catfish and this feisty little guy:

That’s a softshell turtle.  I was able to unhook it, but he got to keep my worm.  There were dozens of these things scooting around.

I was disappointed to see the local minor league baseball team is on the road this week.  It looks like a nice little stadium there in Davenport.  It’s a Midwest League team called the River Rats.  I may see about procuring some swag tomorrow.

My hotel room has a nice view of the cloverleaf interchange between I-74 and I-280 by the airport.  It’s one of only a handful of places where one needs to navigate a loop to follow the ‘mainline’ of an interstate highway.  (One of the other ones is the next interchange east!)

I expect to be in this area for the next several days so I have plenty of time to explore.