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| Impressive doors at the Cahokia Mounds State Historical Park |
Woke up to thunder this morning as a storm passed over Mount Vernon IL. The storm soon was over and we were on our way to Cahokia Mounds State Historical Park (also a World Heritage Site, one of only 21 in the United States and 936 world-wide). The mounds most impressive, huge, with millions of cubic feet of dirt in them with many different sizes and purposes. The largest is 100 feet high. The people belonged to the Mississippian culture, and were active between 900 and 1500. At its height there were about 20,000 residents, larger than London at that time. The city declined and it is not known what happened to the inhabitants---or what group they became.
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| Water loving daisies at Cahokia |
Left Cahokia, which is near Collinsville IL, and drove over the Mississippi into St. Louis. Wonderful views of the Arch as we came into town, and also awful traffic. Working on I-64 and there were narrow lanes with lousy marking, huge bumps, tractor-trailers, weird off and on ramps...altogether very stressful, but Pat made it!
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| Crossing the bridge into St. Louis |
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| Missouri welcome |
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| Pat and I at the Quilted Fox |
We had heard from some ladies at Paducah about a good quilt shop in St Louis, so off we went, yet one more time. Quilt shop was in a strange mall, but we found it. Called the Quilted Fox, they had much oriental style fabric, which made Pat happy. I found some paisley, which made me happy.
We soon left St. Louis and headed west on I-64, and then I-70. We ate lunch at Dairy Queen in Warrenton (no more Dairy Queen) and since there was a quilt shop only 1.5 mi away, what the heck. It was in the Warrenton Mall, which has about 5 open stores, and about 30 empty stores: a ghost mall, if you will. The quilt shop closed yesterday! What great timing for us.
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| Rolling hills in west-central Missouri |
After a (long) while we turned off I-70 to go to Clinton MO to visit cousins of my husband. Called and talked to the husband, who said that they were going to Texas, and he would have his wife call me. Major mis-communication--he did not tell me that at that very time he was on the road driving to Texas, and I thought he meant he would be going to Texas, not at that immediate time!!!! Anyway, Pat and I drove to the middle of nowhere, aka Clinton. Saw some beautiful countryside, very rolling hills, with trees, green wheat, unplanted corn fields, cattle. Got to Clinton (finally), only to discover that the motel had been taken over by a very nice Gujarati couple, and Gogi and Ranbir were nowhere to be seen. Oh well, I'll speak to Gogi later. We took a motel room, and so here we are.
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