We’ve continued to move south; the motorhome is now in St Charles, Missouri. We spend three days exploring St Louis, and a busy three days it’s going to be.

We spent our free day in the Quad Cities getting caught up on chores, then took a tour of a German-American museum in Davenport. It helped me mentally fill in some family blanks to learn more about why Germans moved to America in the 1850’s (an 1848 war ended badly for Germans living near Denmark), among whom were the Luhns. We enjoyed that visit, and I’m looking forward to learning more.

The next day the caravan moved on to Hannibal, Missouri and to a place where nearly every shop has a name tied into Mark Twain or one of his characters. As we crossed the Mississippi the woods even made you picture Tom Sawyer tramping around.

The stay was just two nights, but we did a fair bit of tramping around ourselves. We took a walk through the Mark Twain Caves; these were different than caves we’ve seen in the past, the walls and floors were smooth and narrow. Tom and Becky could easily have gotten lost in there…

We also got to see Mark Twain’s childhood home and a museum dedicated to his life. As we have in earlier stops on this trip we decided that we needed to add books to our reading list.

Tomorrow will be a busy day…more then.