After breakfast at Pepin High School, we continued to follow the Mississippi River in the am. We first rode across the marshy Chippewa River Delta and the Tiffany State Wild Life Area which forms the barrier creating Lake Pepin. Then it was one classic river town after another like Nelson (pop 395), Alma ( pop 942), Cochrane ( pop 435) and Fountain City (pop 983) in a 25 mile stretch of the river. The picture shows Fountain City, a typical river town, with its quaint buildings and one main street sandwiched between the river and the hills forming the river valley. As luck would have it, I just happened to pick the wine museum to show the architecture. Just after Fountain City at mile 33, we stopped at a house that a boulder fell onto in 1995. The lady of the house was in the kitchen preparing dinner to the right of the hole when the rock fell and crushed the room next to her. She was not injured. Even after 15 years someone keeps the house looking as if people were living there and anyone can stop and visit it. We kept our ears alert for any more falling rocks. Also passed several locks and dams on the river.
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