Town House Inn Cape Girardeau

... up to silence each banging door and locker.

Then, around 3am, still only half asleep, Tom and I sat up in bed at the same time. "Oh ----, what's that smell??" We frantically began pulling up floorboards to determine the source of burning plastic and rubber. After a couple of minutes of searching we honed in on a fire hot water pump. Apparently a bearing had seized and because the wiring was undersized, not enough current passed to flip the breaker. Instead, it just ...

... Oh my god-large tree, large tree! Whistle, whistle…) and busted out a minestrone soup belowdecks while getting tossed around by turbulence from the enormous tows. Good beginner’s practice for cooking at sea.
We passed through two locks but because of the draw down a couple of days prior, we only locked down less than a foot in both cases. These are the only two we’ll pass on the Mississippi.

After covering about 76 miles we pulled in ...

... follow her and started to cross the road to the convenience store. When we explored the hotel property, we found a murky pool with a frog in it and a "nightclub" and restaurant that seemed abandoned. I would've complained about stuff, but I felt sorry for the family. After leaving this wretched place, we continued to Memphis, TN.

... s un petit souffle, il a repris vie.Quand nous étions ados, mon frère et moi allions régulièrement nous amuser dans un espèce de club situé sous un stade de baseball, pour fabriquer toute de sorte de choses en contreplaqué. Nos chers parents nous ont inculqués des esprits curieux qui ont grandement aidés au fil des ans. Nous nous intéressons tous à une variété de sujets dont la technologie et l'informatique. Je pratique ...

First day out and we made it to Mt. Vernon Illinois. Didn't leave Cleveland till around 9:45 this morning We did a little side trip to a National Recreation area called Land between the Lakes in Kentucky. Drove through a Bison and Elk preserve seeing some of both. Also saw a couple of deer. I hope this is a warm up for what is to come Kentucky isn't exactly where I was expecting to see wildlife ...

We are takeing a well deserved rest in a motel for once. We will be starting out again in the morning on hwy 60 going west on foot as always. Now it has been a long strange trip to get where we are. And i'm not sure if this blog will be successful. Like will anyone be intrested that i've been hikeing backin and, forth across the United States ever sence Katrina slammed in to New orleans 3 yrs ago. But I've been so many different places and met so many wonderful people ...

We woke late at JAH's at about 9:30 and hit the road. We drove through Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri, where we stayed at Trail of Tears Tears State Park. When we pulled into the park we met this lady named cathy, who was the ranger for the park. She soon acquired the ...

I did a lot of driving today. I putzed around in Michigan for a while getting some last minute supplies and eating lunch (Burger King in Brighton), but finally hit the road at about 1:00. The starting mileage on my odometer was 128,189. I took I-96 until I got to Lansing where I hopped onto I-69 toward Indianapolis. I had to stop just south of Ft. Wayne to fuel up ($4.18/gal - regular). In Indy, I ...

A few days ago, the city had a huge ice storm and the whole city lost their power. Yesterday, half of the city got their power back. Luckily, the theatre was in the part that got their power back. The show was sold out, until the storm, that is. Apparently, half of the people still didn't have power, nor could they get anywhere on the icy roads, so the house was only half full. But they were a great crowd nonetheless with high spirits.

... visited here provisioning before over-wintering in St Louis in 1803/04. Other than that.....well that's about it. We've spent the afternoon watching "Friends", the rain and writing up the Travelog. We're in a kinda pokey, over-priced room. It's cooler but still 70F.