Friday (7/17)   We left the International T@B Rally this morning for Iowa.  It is always so sad when the T@Bbers have to leave and go their separate ways.  It was a great rally!!!

We stopped in West Branch where the boyhood home of Herbert Hoover is located.  It is a very small town and the only real point of interest is the Federal Park which is comprised of his boyhood home, a few buildings that were there when he lived there and his Presidential Library. The two-room home is a very, very small.   This parents both died when he was young and he had to live with various relatives. He was separated from his younger sister and older brother at a young age.  

We then continued on to the Amana Colonies in Iowa for a couple of days.  We had dinner in Amana at the Ox Yoke Inn which was homestyle and was excellent.   After dinner, we went to a play in the Inn called The Queen of Bingo.  It takes place in a Catholic Church basement and is extremely funny as the two women who are the main characters set up to play bingo - it looks like they are moving in!!!!!   Part of the play includes the audience playing a game of bingo - need I say we did not win.