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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.

at the Field of Dreams movie site

At the pub across from Wrigley Field

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.

in Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri

at President Grant's home in Galena, Illinois

at the Laura Ingalls Wilder site

Jamie's favorite: tracing the river all the way to the Headwaters.

Studying the river at the Mud Island

at Mud Island

along the river at Wabasha, WI

at the Headwaters museum

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.

Chickasaw overlook in Memphis

Lewis & Clark observation tower near Alton, IL

wayside vista near Guttenburg

at Lookout Point in Mississippi Palisades State Park

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???