St. Louis Trip, Day 1 - Friday, July 24, 2015
We left home Friday at about 4:30 A.M. I had done my packing the evening before, so I placed everything in the van, bid farewell to my mother and brother, and settled into the back seat to try to get some more sleep.
One of our first stops of the day (after breakfast) was the Mahaska County courthouse in Oskaloosa, Iowa. It is a beautiful building, overlooking a park with a very nice gazebo, and a statue to commemorate Mahaska, a chief of the Ioway Indians.
