Day 5 - Destination: Springfield, Illinois.

Today we went from Springfield in Missouri, to Springfield in Illinois. Mr. Wind did not come with us, by our insistence.

We passed so many business/manufacturing plants or hubs. Businesses you see or hear about. They are all located here. We even saw some familiar food places and some that left AZ. Here's what we saw: North Point Church (I believe they are on tv), Fazoli's, French's Food Plant, 2 huge Fed Ex depots, HUGE Peterbilt, Freightliner and International dealers, Prime Trucking and Arrow Trucking, Tracker Bass Boats with hundreds of boats all shrink wrapped in plastic (located conveniently by a body of water), G3 boats, right down the road, Culver's, White Castle and finally QT again.

In Eureka, MO we passed Six Flags. It looked nice but kind of funny/out of place it seemed, right in a city with all the other shops, businesses right there.

Missouri, by far, is the prettiest state we have driven through yet. Rolling hills, green pasture, farmland, cows, ranches with cows, red barns (tons of them). It just looked so idyllic with homes spaced out on these hills with their cattle and barns and always trees up by the homes. A lot of grain silos too, everywhere. Signs for antique malls and flea markets abound. We have seen lots of water towers in the last three states. Oh and churches, LOTS of churches. Lots of big, old churches. There is one in Illinois that is an old, brick masterpiece with nothing else around it. It looked like it was built decades ago. But I'm puzzled at the location. It was beautiful!

Crossing into Illinois which came really fast on the freeway, we saw a sign for Barack Obama Avenue. Just before, we saw the St. Louis Arch. Illinois has nice old homes too, of course. Some 3-4 story. They are so cool. Mostly I'm impressed by the homes. Here in Illinois we dropped the trailer and went for gas and saw some cool neighborhoods. No rock yards since we left AZ. The front yard grass goes right to the street which is level with the yard, no curbing. Grass and trees and old homes. We are staying by Springfield Lake, there are expensive homes backed up to the lake, of course.

I have to say it has been awesome to have been blessed with the opportunity to take this trip and see our beautiful country. I thank God we have been safe. When you see things like this it only cements our faith because beauty like this did not come from some explosion. It came as a gift from our loving God, for us.

 

 

Oh and Don says "incompetent drivers are not just in Arizona"!

Good Night everyone. Tomorrow is Grainger, Indiana near Elkhart.