Four States

We have a new traveling buddy with us now.  His name is Teradon and he belongs to Emma. Grandma was supposed to repair his smile, it's coming off.  I didn't get a chance to do it before we left, so the plan is to mail it back to her when the smile is fixed.  I decided to take pictures of Teradon as we go along and email them to Sam and Emma to let them know that Teradon is OK and Grandma and Grandpa are taking good care of him and he is seeing a lot of the country. You may, therefore, get to see a lot of Teradon on this blog.  Here he is in the tree at our campground on Old Route 66 near Springfield, IL, making sure we're cooking dinner correctly.





Teradon in tree

At some time during the day on Thursday we decided we should drive straight down the state of Illinois and exit at the bottom - Cairo, the city furthest south in Illinois. And also that we should continue following US 51 into Kentucky and Tennessee and then into Missouri and the Lady Luck Casino RV park in Caruthersville, MO where we had decided to stay.



Crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky



The Ohio River

The Ohio River is pretty big here, very close to where it runs into the Mississippi.  In fact as we drove along, we found a park that sits up on a bluff above the confluence of the two rivers. The next two pictures show the rivers coming together and a huge cross that the people of Wickliffe, KY have erected and can be seen by river travelers for miles on both rivers.  What the pictures don't show you is that we had a "first" at this little "overlook". We drove up the hill and then saw some further parking closer to the cross. We didn't know, but there wasn't a big enough turnaround space to get out.  Sooo...... we had to unhook the car and back up both vehicles and then re-hitch the car to the RV.  The little stop turned into a time consumer.


The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

 

Wickliffe Cross

We drove on and through the western corner of Tennessee, back across the Mississippi and into the Bootheel of Missouri. The Lady Luck Casino (a River Boat Casino) has a nice RV park.  More pictures tomorrow.  We decided to stay two nights and rest up from traveling through four states on Thursday.