August 16, 2011 - Tuesday
Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois
Missouri was the first state line we crossed Tuesday.
What captured my attention throughout this state were the lush fields. Here's a crop of millet.
Our loved ones will see the significance of this photo.
As we drove around St. Louis we passed the St. Louis Temple.
Then we made it across the Mississippi River bridge.
Oh!
We ate dinner (that's Alabama for "Lunch", y'all,) at Logue's Restaurant in Hannibal, MO. Linda's maiden name is "Logue."
We really enjoyed a visit with Darin Logue, the proprietor. He is quite a fascinating guy.
After Linda chatted with him a while about her family name, Darin suggested we order a tenderloin sandwich. He said he gets orders for them all the time where they have to freeze the meat and ship it on dry ice to distant destinations. After we saw the size of the thing then we tasted how delicious it wa we could see why it was so popular. This is only part of it!
Darin told us how his grandfather had established a print shop in town where he introduced the first printing press in the west that used Offset Lithography.
We ate, visited the street where the print shop used to be, then returned to Hwy 61 and left Hannibal, MO, the hometown of Mark Twain.
As we travelled through Missouri, I kept seeing these lush fields of some type of plant I couldn't recognize. I wonder if this is soy beans.
Around Keokuk, Iowa, we turned onto Hwy 136.
From there, we crossed the mighty Mississippi once more.
And we were on to the state of Illinois.
From this side of the river, it looks much different. We saw fields of white water lillies growing along the edge of the river.
I wanted to preserve a photo of our car's temperature gauge because no one back home would guess that the outside temperature could drop to 73 degrees.
12 miles up the road we first entered old Nauvoo.
These Canadian geese were in no hurry to cross the road stopping traffic in both directions.
Linda wanted this sunset photo.
And this is one main reason everyone loves to visit Nauvoo.
Coming into Nauvoo you round a curve and there it is ...
Shining so brightly at the top of the hill overlooking the river is the restored Nauvoo Temple.
What captured my attention throughout this state were the lush fields. Here's a crop of millet.
Our loved ones will see the significance of this photo.
As we drove around St. Louis we passed the St. Louis Temple.
Then we made it across the Mississippi River bridge.
Oh!
We ate dinner (that's Alabama for "Lunch", y'all,) at Logue's Restaurant in Hannibal, MO. Linda's maiden name is "Logue."
We really enjoyed a visit with Darin Logue, the proprietor. He is quite a fascinating guy.
After Linda chatted with him a while about her family name, Darin suggested we order a tenderloin sandwich. He said he gets orders for them all the time where they have to freeze the meat and ship it on dry ice to distant destinations. After we saw the size of the thing then we tasted how delicious it wa we could see why it was so popular. This is only part of it!
Darin told us how his grandfather had established a print shop in town where he introduced the first printing press in the west that used Offset Lithography.
We ate, visited the street where the print shop used to be, then returned to Hwy 61 and left Hannibal, MO, the hometown of Mark Twain.
As we travelled through Missouri, I kept seeing these lush fields of some type of plant I couldn't recognize. I wonder if this is soy beans.
Around Keokuk, Iowa, we turned onto Hwy 136.
From there, we crossed the mighty Mississippi once more.
And we were on to the state of Illinois.
From this side of the river, it looks much different. We saw fields of white water lillies growing along the edge of the river.
I wanted to preserve a photo of our car's temperature gauge because no one back home would guess that the outside temperature could drop to 73 degrees.
12 miles up the road we first entered old Nauvoo.
These Canadian geese were in no hurry to cross the road stopping traffic in both directions.
Linda wanted this sunset photo.
And this is one main reason everyone loves to visit Nauvoo.
Coming into Nauvoo you round a curve and there it is ...
Shining so brightly at the top of the hill overlooking the river is the restored Nauvoo Temple.