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Day 35 – Memphis, Music
What do you think of when you think of Memphis? Many people would say “music”, or “the blues”. There are many opportunities to experience the music that came out of Memphis, and today was our day to connect with a couple of the most significant ones. Our day began at Sun Studio. This recording studio…
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Days 33 & 34 – We’re going to Memphis!
October 18 and 19 were travel days between St Louis and Memphis. This is over 300 miles on the Great River Road, too far for one day. So the tour adds a stop in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to break it up. We had an easy 2-hour trip to the Cape, as it’s called. There were…
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Day 32 – Lewis and Clark
During our visit to St Louis we were staying in the town of St Charles. Although St Louis was the departure point for most of the 45 members of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, Lewis himself joined them at St Charles. The town gave them an elaborate send off, and it lays claim to…
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Day 31 – More St Louis Icons
October 16, the 17th day of our Mississippi River Run tour. We are halfway through already! We’ve been so busy and having such a good time it’s hard to believe so much time has passed! Today we visited Forest Park in St Louis, which in addition to being a huge and lovely city park, has…
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Day 29 – Meet me in St Louis!
October 14, the start of our fifth week on the road and the third week of the Mississippi River Run tour. Today we traveled from Hannibal to St Louis, Missouri. Our destination, Sundermeier RV Park in St Charles. This was primarily a travel day, but it did have the sort of jewel box experience that…
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Day 30 – St Louis Icons
We are spending three days in the St Louis area, enough for a tiny taste of what there is to see and do here. Our tour brought us to three of the most significant and impressive today, October 15. Our first stop was the Old Missouri State Supreme Courthouse. Here, the appeal of Dred and…
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Days 27 & 28 – Mark Twain
No Mississippi River trip would be complete without a chapter on Mark Twain. Although quite a lot was written about Mississippi River life and culture during the 1800’s, Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn made their time come to life around the world. And so our tour spent a couple of days in Hannibal exploring…
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Day 26 – Amana Colonies
On October 11 we were introduced to the Amana Colonies. These seven little villages and the 26,000 acres of land surrounding them have a very unique position in the history of American immigration. Amana means “faithful” or “true”. It was a name chosen by a group of German Lutherans who broke away from the church…
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Days 24 & 25 – catching up
We have been soooooooo busy the past few days that I haven’t been able to stay awake long enough at the end of the day to update this diary. So I’m going to catch up a couple of days to get back on track. Hope it works! On October 9, our day began with a…
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Days 22 & 23 – Road tripping, eagles, and the River
Sometimes on this trip we have two road tripping days in a row. On these occasions we have a little touring added to the itinerary so we aren’t arriving at our destination bleary-eyed and white-knuckled. This is the tale of October 7 and 8, the start of our second week with the Mississippi River Run…
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The wanderings of two women and their dog
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