NICE and HOT today! Mid July and I love it. Don't gripe,, can you remember the -20 last winter and the God awful winds, drifts, etc. FORGET IT!! I like it HOT!

Reminds me of when I was a kid. Hot days mean 'swimming or water' in any town.. Well, in Coralville that meant, Iowa River....There was no pool at that time. We DID ride our bikes to the Iowa City pool a lot. Lots of fun. The hill on Rocky Shore/Park Road was steep going TO the pool, but great and downhill on the way home! We would go down as fast as we could, then NOT pedal and see how far we could go. Our next 'stop' was the Zesto Ice Cream store, right where the old Tom Riley Law Firm building is today. (next to the train trestle) We could get a cone and hang around, then get on the bikes and pedal home, KNOWING that we had to ride on the north side of the Strip.. This allowed us to ride into the driveway of all the businesses!! We would zoom thru the overhang at the Alamo Motel, just outside the Manager's Office, across the narrow drive of the Dog N Suds, then the BIG wide open driveway of the Hudson Oil Station, down and across the 'dinger' at the Cities Service station (making sure we rang the bell) then around the corner and across the skinny, narrow little bridge across Clear Creek. NOT the one that is there today, but an older 1.5 lane streel span with planks that was moved to this site in the 20s.. That bridge was there until the early 70s or so.....NOW it is being widened to 4 lanes!!...THEN we made it to Koser's Store on the NW corner of 1st Ave and 5th street for a cold bottle of Red Rock Cola.. FIVE CENTS for 7 oz bottle.....We did this same thing a MILLION times!! If we did not want to ride bikes to Iowa City we went swimming in the Iowa River...so many stories, so much fun, so long ago..........................................