Big Bobby here. This is one of my favorite places. Mrs. D. and I visit here almost every summer, and this time Eloise is here, too.
We get to go for walks a lot here. Around the neighborhood, along the river. I never want to leave.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Day 16: South Bend, Indiana
What was supposed to be another easy day of driving into South Bend was derailed by some kind of awful accident, or perhaps two of them, causing a freeway closure and re-routing us through Illinois farmland as night came on.
We arrive late and tired.
We arrive late and tired.
Day 15: Marion, Illinois
An easy day driving north east, through country that keeps getting greener, trees that keep getting higher.
We crossed the Mississippi near Cairo, a place name from Huckleberry Finn. I'm reminded of a fact about that story that you must know history and geography to understand; Huck and Jim are traveling on the river where it separates the states of Missouri and Illinois. Jim is a runaway slave from Missouri, a slave state; his obvious goal is to get over the river to Illinois, and yet he spends weeks on the river with Huck, apparently to look after him--something Huck's viewpoint doesn't share with us, but which Mark Twain probably intended us to understand.
We crossed the Mississippi near Cairo, a place name from Huckleberry Finn. I'm reminded of a fact about that story that you must know history and geography to understand; Huck and Jim are traveling on the river where it separates the states of Missouri and Illinois. Jim is a runaway slave from Missouri, a slave state; his obvious goal is to get over the river to Illinois, and yet he spends weeks on the river with Huck, apparently to look after him--something Huck's viewpoint doesn't share with us, but which Mark Twain probably intended us to understand.
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