When in Springfield IL the Presidents home is a must see. I have several pictures to post but the transfer is not as easy as I had hoped it would be and I will have to do some more research.
After seeing the home we moved on down the road Sunday afternoon to the Chain of Rocks Bridge and walked across that span it was neat to reflect back on the river trip and see the world from up there rather than down there. Saw a barge proceeding down the channel and remembered how nervous I was moving around these giants on the river and in the narrow canal.
The found the Cahokia Mounds in southern IL another must see. They are huge by any standards and it takes your breath away on the scale these people thought and build. The site covers 6 square miles and that is just site out farms and buildings covered even more land. Just the wall surrounding the main site was 2 miles long with a center plaza over 40 acres just huge. They claim up to 20,000 lived in the area at one time and then just disappeared around 1400-1500 for no known reasons.
We then bypassed St. Louis and stopped to see the Caves and they are cool literally and from a experience perceptive too.
So there is the update love to all and to all good night.
Allan
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