Two for One

Hey tour guide, do you know we are driving through Chicago.  Yes, KW I do know we are driving through Chicago.  What's the problem?  Don't you know gangsters live there?  KW, there are no gangsters anymore.  Well, I did some reading and gookle says different.  Some guy named scar face is the boss.  He kills anyone who gets in his way.  Murder incorporated works for him.  They run booze all over the city.  Oh no, speed up tour guide, we are coming to Cicero.  Al Capone lives there.  Faster, they may have the Tommy Gun, Annihilator, Chicago Typewriter,  Chicago Piano, Trench broom, The Chopper, or better know as the Thompson, and they fire 600-725 rounds per minute.  kw, kw,  kw, KW wake up, you are having a nightmare.  Is it safe to come out?

  

Whoa, where are we?  We are in Wisconsin.  I remember coming into Chicago and I must have passed out.  By the way KW, you used gookle, not google.  Next time check your spelling and you won't have nightmares.

Ok, now that the nightmare is over we are on the way to Harpers Ferry, Iowa.  Sure hope there are no Gangsters.  KW, there are no Gangsters any where.  We are going to see the Effigy Mounds National Monument.  Tour guide, what's an Effigy Mound?  Burial grounds for Native American Indians.  Oh great, now we have to deal with Indians.  KW, your imagination runs rampant and before you ask, it means out of control.  Oh Ok, but I was not going to ask.

Coming to the Park.


Mrs. tour guide stamping.                  


KW & CJ stamping.

Hiking The trails.
  

Tour guide, what are you doing?  I was chasing a bear away.  Tour guide, whose imagination is running Rampant now?  There are no bears in Iowa.  Hey, there could have been.




Looking down the Mississippi River.


Different Effigy Mounds.
  

  

Big Bear Mound.


We found a very nice Antique Mall.
  

TTFN:

PS:

Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by Native American.  Numerous effigy mounds are shaped like animals, including bears and birds.  These were built mostly in the first millennium, by peoples of the Woodland Culture.

Aerial drawing of what the mounds look like.  Unfortunately they are all grown over with high grass and weeds.


Little Bear Mound.  It does not look like this now.  Grass has grown up on all the mounds
 

The first mobster to be featured on the cover of Times Magazine was a Chicago gangster, Al Capone.  Nicknamed Scar Face for his scars on his left cheek, he was known for his brilliant mind that distinguished him as a force to be reckoned with in the criminal underworld.


The Thompson submachine gun is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1918, that became infamous during the Prohibition era, becoming a signature weapon of various organized crime syndicates in the United States.