Flooded Out On The 4th of July
One of our favorite campgrounds is Devil's Backbone Park in Grand Tower, Illinois. clickIt is right on the Mississippi River with beautiful views of the Father of Waters and the passing tow boats. Tow...
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Folks thanks for posting about our part of the world. As you know, Jane and I love traveling out West. We enjoy the vast expanses and the opportunity to boondock on top of Muley Point. But, we love this part of the world as well. It appears that it is lesser known to the TC fraternity.
I put together a trip report along the Ohio last year and decided not to post it.....thinking that no one would be interested. Now, I'm thinking of reviving it. Seems like a lot of folks would like to enjoy Missouri, Arkansas and Southern Illinois.
And its true that our travels in our TC tend to focus on history or the man-made landscape of farms, dams, mounds and other structures. What is known as the "social" landscape.
I can't get enough of thinking about Lewis and Clark ascending Tower Rock on the Mississippi as their Corps of Discovery traveled through. It's in their Journal.
And we love camping along the Ohio and discovering the remnants of mussel shell fishermen. They boiled out the shells and punched holes for buttons of mother of pearl until the 1930s. Plastic wiped them out in the button business. The piles are still there - you just have to stumble over them.
And visiting Shawneetown, Illinois, which is practically a ghost town today as a result of the Ohio River flood of 1937. Still standing is the bank built in the 1839 when Shawneetown was as big as Chicago.
Yep, I could write a trip report and probably should. I'll wait till the storms are past.
I put together a trip report along the Ohio last year and decided not to post it.....thinking that no one would be interested. Now, I'm thinking of reviving it. Seems like a lot of folks would like to enjoy Missouri, Arkansas and Southern Illinois.
And its true that our travels in our TC tend to focus on history or the man-made landscape of farms, dams, mounds and other structures. What is known as the "social" landscape.
I can't get enough of thinking about Lewis and Clark ascending Tower Rock on the Mississippi as their Corps of Discovery traveled through. It's in their Journal.
And we love camping along the Ohio and discovering the remnants of mussel shell fishermen. They boiled out the shells and punched holes for buttons of mother of pearl until the 1930s. Plastic wiped them out in the button business. The piles are still there - you just have to stumble over them.
And visiting Shawneetown, Illinois, which is practically a ghost town today as a result of the Ohio River flood of 1937. Still standing is the bank built in the 1839 when Shawneetown was as big as Chicago.
Yep, I could write a trip report and probably should. I'll wait till the storms are past.
