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First Breakfast...of many |
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Wabash River, Grayville, IL |
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wabash River |
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Huge Oak tree |
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Garden of the Gods, Illinois (yes, Illinois) |
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Penny in Garden of the Gods |
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Tad & Penny |
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Don't fall! |
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Penny trying to take a "Tad" picture |
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Tad Exploring |
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Garden of the Gods |
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Garden of the Gods |
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Penny |
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Now that's a Tad picture |
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Penny...on the "safe" route |
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Garden of the Gods |
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That looks like elevation change...you sure we're still in Illinois??? |
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Weird rock |
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Flowers |
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More Sandstone |
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Mississippi River Ferry |
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Ferry |
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Breakfast...with the most depressing waitress we have ever met |
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Yo yo!! Dat for you, Kev. |
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Lunch Stop |
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Welcome Center |
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Alton Brown stopped here on "Feasting on Asphalt" |
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Downtown area of Vicksburg, MS |
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Penny |
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Vicksburg |
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A historic mansion in Vicksburg |
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The ST...of course...what's a picture without a motorcycle in it? |
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See what I mean? |
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Vicksburg Courthouse |
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Penny at the Vicksburg National Park and Battlefield |
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There were monuments for each division that fought here during the Civil War |
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Wisconsin |
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Penny |
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Statue of General Grant... |
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...his headquarters were on this site during the siege of Vicksburg |
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A Civil War battleship named the Cairo |
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Cannons |
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Steering wheel |
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The boilers |
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Damage, showing where it impacted a mine and sunk |
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Whoa...breakfast |
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View of the Mississippi from Vicksburg |
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Mississippi River |
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