Continuing on our journey from Wisconsin

After a quick one night stay across the river from Dubuque in Wisconsin, we continued on our journey toward the Chicago-land area...

Technically, we could have stayed on roads in Wisconsin and worked our way east and south (using county roads such as County Road H, County Road HH, and County Road HHH), but the Garmin in Gracie (which knows how long and heavy she is) recommended that we stay on more major roads which took us back through Dubuque.

So we re-crossed the Mississippi...

Looking upstream of the mighty Mississippi

We got welcomed back into Iowa...

...saw (what I think is) the gold leafed dome on the Dubuque Courthouse (at a distance)...

...were impressed by the massive structure holding the traffic signals aloft at this intersection...

... crossed another bridge over the Mississippi...

... enjoyed some additional views of the mighty Mississippi, upstream...

... and downstream...

"Smile, Carl!" (another upstream view - you may be able to barely see the bridge we had crossed earlier out the window)

... and got welcomed into Illinois (the northern bridge out of Dubuque goes into Wisconsin, the southern one goes into Illinois).

So we were on our way to the Chicago-land area!