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| August 22 - Thursday Springfield, Illinois to Marysville, Kansas We gave ourselves the morning for exploring and decided that the Lincoln Home National Historic Site sounded the most interesting. |
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| It is the home where Abe, Mary their kids lived for the 15 years before he became president. Yes, this is the front door bell. |
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| Much of it is original. |
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| This includes the highly patterned carpet and wallpaper which was the "in" style of the day. |
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| Our tour guide was a retired political science university professor and he was awesome - quite knowledgeable and funny too. |
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| Mary's bathroom was well equipped. |
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| The kitchen was pretty simple compared to the rest of the house |
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| And this 3 holer outhouse was in the backyard. Guess the boys must have been sent out there. |
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| The Historic Site includes the blocks surrounding the house and is maintained to look much like it did in the 1850's. The other houses are mostly used for offices of various sorts. |
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| These pillars are scattered around this part of town and most reference something about Lincoln. |
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| On our walk back to the motel we stopped in at the current state capitol building. |
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| Then we went past the Old Capitol building where Lincoln served. |
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| The Presidential Library is probably pretty interesting too but we still have miles to cover. |
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| We crossed into Missouri over the Mississippi River at Hannibal, home of Mark Twain. |
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| And it was time for lunch. |
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| They had TWO quilt fabric shops on the main street. |
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| We were on the river side of the tracks and it was a really looooong freight train. That sign is the height of the record 1993 flood. |
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| The levies remind us of The Netherlands. |
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| Tom and Huck saw us off. |
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| Our view of Missouri with lots of rolling fields and woodlands. |
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| Crossing the Missouri River into Kansas at St. Joseph, Missouri. |
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| Maybe somewhere in Kansas is as flat as a pancake but it's not northern Kansas. |
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| We had dinner at The Bread Bowl in Hiawatha. It was one of the best soups in a bread bowl we've ever had. |
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| Then we were treated to another dramatic sunset. |
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