Hanging out in Livingston

We are hanging out in Livingston, Texas for the next couple of weeks. It is "home" and we will do the 6 month maintenance at the doctors. Just kicking back for the most part, except Jim is busy waxing the motorhome (it's looking good) and Karen is cleaning out some cupboards. Don't have much new to report.

We stopped in Springfield, Missouri and visited the headquarters of Bass Pro Shop. It is actually quite a destination. Part outdoor store(that stocks everything under the sun ) and part museum of fish and wildlife it was really an interesting place. They have 2 restaurants and even a barber shop where they make a fishing lure out of your hair!

We drove through Hannibal, Missouri--boyhood home of Mark Twain. There was an old car rally going on also. It was neat to see the old cars drving the streets of this old Misssissippi River town.

We went to the new Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library while in Springfield, Illinois. What a great place. They had lots of Lincoln artifacts (like the original 13th amendment) as well as multi-media presentations about our 16th president. If you get to Springfield this place is a MUST SEE!

Only a few locations allowed photos. Here Karen poses with the Lincolns outside the White House. All aspects of his life were covered and we really enjoyed the museum.

Update

We have been busy and also neglectful of the blog!! So sorry. At the last posting, we were in New York. Now we are in Springfield, Illinois. What have we been up to?? Well..

We left New York and drove to through part of Pennsylvania to Zanesville Ohio. While there, we made a brief trip to Coshocton where Jim looked up some genealogy information at the public library. We had a pleasant surprise when we checked in at our campground. Checking in at the same time were Jan and Barry--Boomer friends we met in Quartzsite last winter. Jan is from Zanesville and she and Barry took us to Tom's Ice Cream Bowl--a local favorite for homemade ice cream. Delicious! It was nice to visit with them.

Next stop was Dayton, Ohio--home of the National US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. What an enormous place!! Acres and acres (inside hangers) of planes depicting aviation history from the Wrights up to space craft. They had Presidential aircraft as well. It was a really neat place to visit.

Our next stop was in Elkhart Indiana--home of the Monaco factory as well as other RV supply outlets. We picked a up a few spare parts we needed. We also bought a new couch to replace the one we had removed last winter. Getting that into the motorhome proved quite challenging--our thanks to John (next door neighbor from Florida) for adding his muscle to the project!

Then we moved on to Bloomington Indiana to see our good friend, Barbara. We had lovely weather while we there. We got to go on a night time cat fishing expedition with one of her co-workers at Patoka Lake. Once the sunset it was downright cold but we enjoyed a beautiful sunset, gorgeous moonrise and we caught some catfish too! Barbara took this photo of Jim fishing into the sunset.
We spent the rest of the weekend helping Barbara with some home improvement projects. Our visit went too quickly as usual but we really enjoyed it.

From there we went to Carlock, Illinois where parked overnight. While there we made a drive over to Amanda (our other " daughter")and Jared and family. We had a short but wonderful visit with them. It was especially fun to see how much the kids had grown and see the new baby.

Now we are in Springfield, Illinois. There is a weather front moving in and "S" word is in the forecast!! So the plan is to see the new Lincoln Museum/Library and then head South--winter is coming.