We drove across the river to Illinois so John could go to the low point on Illinois, outside of Cairo. It is named after the one in Egypt since it is also on a river delta.
Headed out of town on the bridge in Cape Girardeau , MO to Cairo, Illinois to the low point in Illinois. Here are a couple of the old mansions from when Cairo was a thriving city.
A bridge on the way into Cairo. It goes through the levy and has a huge door that can be lowered. Most of the cities near the lower Mississippi have levees for the yearly floods.
Cairo was huge, it is now largely abandoned, as in the photo above. Eerie. It is huge old houses and building, boarded up and falling down. Fort Defiance. It was a civil war fort. Ulysses Grant was the commander. They kept the Mississippi open so they could transport munitions and troops. It is also the low point of Illinois.
Here is John at the low point. Kentucky was just across the river, so we drove over for the photo of the sign.
a few good signs on the trip, Horseshoe Lake is filled with bald cypress trees
More cypress trees, A pig mobile
aliens and the National traveling breast museum. These were all in the parking lot of a strip joint, the Pony. Traveling breast museum, I have seen everything now.
a grist mill and covered bridge out side of Cape Girardeau , innards of the mill
reflection of the leaves at the mill, John inside the bridge
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