We did wake up early this morning but didn't get gone as soon as Daniel would have liked. However we did leave early from Duck Creek RV Park in Paducah which made it incredibly cooler while driving most of today's journey.
We passed over so many rivers and bridges, it was hard to keep it straight. Here we are passing over the Mississippi right about where the Ohio River flows into it. This bridge took us from Kentucky into Illinois.
We drove for a little while in Illinois, saw a lot of corn fields and one small town that literally seemed to be a ghost town (Cairo, Illinois), like it had been abandoned in the 50's or 60's, we crossed another bridge and the Mighty Mississippi once again into Missouri. We rode around Cape Girardeau (hometown of Rush Limbaugh) for a little while. Since it was still early and it would save us nearly an hour in travel, we hopped on the interstate. It was fine until we started getting closer to St. Louis where there was much more traffic to contend with. And somewhere, we crossed the Missouri River but I can't remember where.
After getting off the interstate and stopping for a bite to eat, we reached our destination. Hannibal, Missouri, hometown of Mark Twain. We are staying at the Mark Twain Cave Campground and was able to go and tour the cave (which I didn't even know about) this afternoon. It was pretty neat although nowhere near the size of "our cave" (Cathedral Caverns). After we ate some supper at the camper, we headed into downtown Hannibal and walked around a few of the blocks. There was an orchestra of sorts set up right on the street so we stood and listened to that for a bit, walked by the river (Mississippi) and tried to find the childhood home of Mark Twain.
It will be another early rise for us tomorrow. Hopefully we can get packed up and on the way a little faster than we did today.
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