Category: Travels

I'm so glad I went. People had told me it was an excellent museum, so figured it was worth the trip. Little did I know what I showed up on the opening weekend of it's expansion that more than doubled the size. I was blown away by the art: the diversity of different kinds of … Continue reading Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

With St Louis as a starting point Missouri kept showing me the many ways Rt 66 had impacted the state. The old road runs right next to Interstate 44 but in areas finds some distance and the sense of being in a different world would return. I began by visiting the Shaw Nature Reserve, a … Continue reading Missouri: the Show Me State

Southern Illinois becomes soft rolling hills. Nice after all the flatlands north of there. Stopped by the grave/memorial to Mother Jones -- at a United Mine Workers cemetery -- the only one run by & for union workers. Obviously well cared for. Remember I said there would be more service station nostalgia, here's another. I … Continue reading Southern Illinois & St Louis

I'm really late posting things. By the end of the day of driving and touring, and with sometimes iffy wifi, I've gotten delay, but here goes on trying to catch up. Springfield IL was were Abraham Lincoln taught himself law (yup, that's right) and was practicing. Here he married Mary Todd and started having children. … Continue reading Springfield IL, Lincoln’s resting place