DAY 14 ~ Our Great River Road Adventure
Our caravan of two travel trailers hit the southbound highway early Friday morning at Louisville, Kentucky. Six hundred miles, two relax-and-rejuvenate meals, several fuel fill-ups and sixteen hours later, we arrived home. A good trip, indeed!
In total, more than 3500 miles, 13 nights, 8 campsites, with excursions by foot, ferry, boat, bus, train and subway, and navigation assistance provided through 2 Google maps on Android phones, 2 hand-held radios, 1 CB radio, 1 Garmin GPS unit, and a Rand McNally atlas.
Over our last meal together, we discussed our favorite parts of the trip.
John's favorite - you guessed it - the baseball stuff: Field of Dreams, Wrigley Field and the Louisville Slugger factory.
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| at the Field of Dreams movie site |
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| At the pub across from Wrigley Field |
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| at the Louisville Slugger factory |
Becky's favorite: Hannibal, Missouri, and Galena, Illinois, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder site, some of the historic places we visited.
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| in Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri |
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| at President Grant's home in Galena, Illinois |
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| at the Laura Ingalls Wilder site |
Jamie's favorite: tracing the river all the way to the Headwaters.
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| Studying the river at the Mud Island |
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| at Mud Island |
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| along the river at Wabasha, WI |
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| at the Headwaters museum |
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| wading in the headwaters stream |
Mary's favorite: the aerial vistas along the river - Chickasaw in Memphis, Lewis & Clark Observation Tower near Alton, Illinois, Lookout Point at Mississippi Palisades, Memorial Park in Red Wing.
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| Chickasaw overlook in Memphis |
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| Lewis & Clark observation tower near Alton, IL |
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| wayside vista near Guttenburg |
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| at Lookout Point in Mississippi Palisades State Park |
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| from Lookout Point at Mississippi Palisades State Park |
What we want to do next time: explore the river from Memphis south to the Gulf of Mexico.
What we wish we had: more time to spend at each stop -
when can we retire for real???
