We arrived in St. Louis late this afternoon. We had a fun day. After crossing into Missouri, we stopped in Hannibal to see the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum. His boyhood home is the white building on the right in the top photo.From Hannibal, we drove to The Historic Daniel Boone Home and Boonsfield Village near Defiance. Pictured in the lower photo, this is the home where Boone lived some of the later years of his life, and it's where he died.
We enjoyed both sites, but we both felt the Daniel Boone museum was more interesting, perhaps because there was a guided tour. We learned that, despite popular opinion to the contrary, Boone never wore a coon skin cap.Tonight, we left the hotel in search of BBQ ribs (we need something to compare to what we'll be getting in Memphis in a few days!). We trusted our GPS when it said there was a BBQ restaurant .4 of a mile away. So we trudged through the heat and humidity to the location, only to find it was out of business. So we settled for TGI Fridays. We both had good meals, but it just wasn't what we had in mind.
Tomorrow, we spend the day in St. Louis.
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