Mammoth Caverns to Pella Iowa

 From the Diamond Caverns Thousand Trails park, we traveled northwest to central Indiana where we stayed for three days at the Horseshoe Lakes Thousand Trails park near Clinton. We needed a few days break from traveling.  Aside from shopping for groceries and doing some laundry, we stayed in the park.  

 

The motorhome generator would run for only a few minutes and then could not be restarted.  Since it generated electric power and otherwise ran normally, lack of fuel appeared to be the problem.  I had wisely bought a replacement fuel pump and filter before our Alaska trip.  I needed only to buy a new fuel line and a couple of clamps from the nearby Advance auto.  

 

After two hours of work the genset was again running normally.

 

On July 9th, we continued northwest to the Iowa border where we checked into a very nice Army Core of Engineers (COE) park on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river, Fishermans Corner.  A paved waterfront site with electric was only $20 per day with the Senior pass. We stayed two nights.

On July 12th we left Fishermans Corner and traveled only a couple of hours west to Pella Iowa.  

 

The nearby Wallashuck COE park was a very nice campground with spacious paved sites with 30 amp electric.

 

Pella Iowa was founded by Dutch settlers and the downtown area includes several original buildings with the whole town reflecting Dutch style architecture.

Unfortunately we toured the town on a Sunday.  Nearly all of the tourist attractions were closed.

We did get a few interesting pictures of the various buildings.

 After a two day stay at Pella, IA, we made the three hour drive to Papillion, NE.