Picture 5/17: Cooperative Ambassador

May 17

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Our River Road mini-vacation continues......

Today, we were driving down the Iowa side of the Mighty Mississippi and came across a flea market in Bellevue.

We stopped to shop and noticed that a tugboat with barges was going thru the lock right next to the park hosting the flea market.

I wandered over there for a look and was excited to see that it was an ARTCO (Archer Daniels Midland) vessel.

The M.V. COOPERATIVE AMBASSADOR:

Oh how I would have been thrilled to be invited aboard for a quick tour.

One of my "bucket list" items is to spend a couple nights (optimistic) or a day (more realistic) working aboard a tugboat.

Riding the Mississippi in a very cool and unique way.

Out for now......

Matt