We're back from our five day adventure. We did our best to follow the old Route 66 as much as possible, but had to detour on Sunday night to get to Petersburg and Lincoln's New Salem State Park. We camped there and then took a stroll through the recreated village where Lincoln lived from about 1831 until about 1837. I think we were there about 25 years ago with Pat and Bud. Does anyone remember?
Monday we went to Springfield and spent half a day at the new Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library. Really interesting, informative, state of the art, entertaining. Also visited the state capital bldg. to see if any of our legislators were working on resolving the budget, but not much was going on. Saw a few other things and then continued down route 66 to Carlinville where we stayed at Beaver Dam State Park.
Tuesday we followed Route 66 to the Mississippi River, then started north on the Great River Road. Got as far as Hannibal, MO. Stayed in a campground there and went on a 2 hour dinner cruise on the Mark Twain Riverboat. Cruise was nice, dinner was not first rate.
Wednesday we did some more exploring of the town and then followed the river road north to just past the quad cities. Camped once more, this time at a forest preserve right along the river. Thursday we headed for home, this time following the old Lincoln Highway. Saw a neat windmill in Fulton, had lunch in Sterling, then visited Ronald Reagan's boyhood home in Dixon. Also stopped at the Fabyan Forest Preserve windmill south of Geneva. The Fox River has a lot of neat trails to walk along the river. We got home Thursday night. Spent Friday catching up around here and then went to Kyrsta Hokanson's wedding. They used to live down the street on Staunton for about 20 years. The Rottersman's and the Matzelle's went as well, so we had a good time. Stopped at a brew pub in Canterra between the wedding and the reception, then ate way to much at the reception at Cress Creek. This morning I weigh more than I have in years, so it's time to start paying attention....
I'm on my way this morning to Gram's, to do her laundry and whatever else she has in store. She was apparently sick all last week, after a couple of insect bites, one on the front of her neck that swelled up, got red and hard and made it difficult for her to breathe.
Our low temperature last night set a new record, but we don't think we had any frost damage. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
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I was there too
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