[tcb] Southern Illinois bus trip - ho hum
- From: Bob Perring <perring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,buskatiers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:44:01 -0500
Not exactly an awesome trip, but it was an awesome time.
Mary Beth and I took out in NeueBus yesterday mid-morning, and drove
along the highway 3 bluffs over to a little nearby town by the name
of Jacob; located just beneath the bluffs and down in the bottoms
land of the Mississippi.
It was their annual Werstfest where these Lutherans cook a up lot of
really good German sausages, potatoes, kraut, apples, desserts, etc.,
and then you get to eat as much as you want for $8.00 per person.
Later, we drove along the levee and looked for Tom Sawyer, Huck, and
Becky; Instead, saw a lot of trees that had been snapped off a few
weeks ago by the tornado that went through the area - WOW!
Then, drove across the Mississippi at Chester, Illinois (home of
Popeye the sailor man), went to Kaskaskia, the first capital of
Illinois. Pretty neat in that it West of the Mississippi, and is in
Illinois. The town was French settled, and established in 1673.
Let me say that again - located West of the Mississippi, and still in Illinois.
Let me say that again, founded in 1673.
Oh, yeah, let me say that again.
Chester, Illinois
home of Popeye the sailor man ........ and .......... Menard prison;
the prison where Dr. Richard Kimbell was being bussed off to when his
prison bus was hit by that train, and the movie "The Fugitive" got rolling.
Additional bus content........
West of the Mississippi, and still in Illinois, we found a barn
stored, but still abandoned VW bus.
Total trip mileage; door to door - about 100 miles.
Posting today,
Lurking tomorrow,
Bob
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