{"id":34805,"date":"2026-01-23T06:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34805"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:38:43","slug":"with-a-name-like-quad-cities-you-have-to-be-more-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/with-a-name-like-quad-cities-you-have-to-be-more-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"With A Name Like &#8220;Quad Cities,&#8221; You Have To Be More Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a piece in <em>St. Louis Magazine<\/em> entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlmag.com\/culture\/travel\/a-guide-to-taking-a-viking-river-cruise-along-the-mississipp\/\" target=\"_new\">A guide to taking a Viking river cruise along the Mississippi from St. Louis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Day 4: Stop in the Quad Cities, Iowa, the \u201cBreadbasket\u201d of the United States. Visitors will begin their day with a visit to the John Deere Pavilion and Deere family homes. Afterward, guests can choose between an optional tour of local farms or stroll through <b>the city<\/b> itself, visiting the Figge Art Museum or the Quad City Botanical Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technically, the Quad Cities are, get this, <em>four cities<\/em>.  The list of attractions includes stops in three of the four: The Deere things are in Moline; the art museum is in Davenport; the Botanical Gardens are in Rock Island.  Only Bettendorf is omitted.  I wonder if residents of the area think of the whole region as &#8220;the city.&#8221;  I presume not since there is a river to cross to get from Davenport\/Bettendorf to Moline\/Rock Island.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t I Mr. Knowledge from having been to Davenport twice in the last two years?  And I haven&#8217;t even read the history book of the area that I picked up in 2024.  But that and the final Ben Wolf novel are definitely in the short queue before October this year.<\/p>\n<p>And I looked at this article with some interest.  Mrs. Noggle would like to go on another cruise after 27 years, but I&#8217;ve been a bit reluctant.  So I kinda priced this one out and&#8230;  Holy Huck Finn: $30,000 and 30 days for a round trip.  I guess the Caribbean it is.  Someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a piece in St. Louis Magazine entitled A guide to taking a Viking river cruise along the Mississippi from St. Louis: Day 4: Stop in the Quad Cities, Iowa, the \u201cBreadbasket\u201d of the United States. Visitors will begin their day with a visit to the John Deere Pavilion and Deere family homes. Afterward, guests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34806,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34805\/revisions\/34806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}