We stopped in Rockford IL to visit my Sister Coleen, Brother in Law Harold and new baby Boy, Bowie! We stayed in the parking lot of the...

We went to Sandwich to Visit my Niece Lauren. She is a farmer of sorts, and has land that she tends and takes herbs and veggies to the...

Bite to eat with my Niece Lauren!

We had to stop in to say hi to My Niece Lauren. We stayed near by at Air Classics Inc. Museum. They were not open but we lucked out and a...

What a great place to stop for a night (or 2) through Harvest Host. Convenient to all of the sights around St Louis and the surrounding...

Our Lady of the Snows is the oldest devotion to Mary in the Catholic Church. It can be traced to Rome, Italy, in the year 352 A.D....

Oh and Natural Hyacinth and Honeysuckle too!

Went for a hike in Giant City State Park in the morning, before the heat would take hold...it got up to the 90's . The first hike was...

What a way to stay! We love the Harvest hosts, this was just beautiful! This did suck! Ha

So after our hike we were spent and had to stop for a cold one! HA, There was a Motorcycle Show in the area all weekend. We were going to...

Again it was already in the upper 80's for temp and was a challenge to hike up this steep short trail, but we did it for some pretty shots!

So we thought nothing much of this, thought it would be just a small cave, we were wrong! Super impressive and cool temp compared to the...

OMG, the cutest town, nothing to to see except "the Cave in Rock" and the cute bikes they had around town.

Like I said it has been in the 90's with heat index in the 100's not to motivated to move! Went in the morning to Garden of the Gods,...

We still have chocolate in the Rig... but Dennis ate all the Huge Malted Mile balls...

Dennis caught this sunrise the next morning... I was still sung as a bug.

We were told that just out side of Galena was a ski resort, and if you walked a bit could catch a great sunset. So off we went with beach...

Next stop was Galena IL, what a nice drive and Super Cute town. It reminds us of Still Water MN, But we think they have more shops and...

So it happen that we could not get our Rig serviced. We will now wait until MN. One of the landing legs is leaking Hydraulic Fluid. We...

Yep...Just had to to go Sandwich... So yes we saw the "sandwich police" and then the Fire department and...wait for it... what goes with...