Barbara, Suzanne and Becca leaving Madelia on Monday, August 4
Linda saying goodbye to Peggy at Albert Lea
The group is up to five when we pick up Nancy at Mason City
Amy and Suzanne up to no good
Nancy liked Linda's lunch from Panera
The Eagle Ridge Resort where we stayed the first night, courtesy of Rod and Amy
Brenda wasn't much help pushing the luggage cart
Relaxing in the fine accommodations
Looking at the map
Trying to get the internet (with no luck)
Brenda relaxed too
The hot tub
The luxury bathroom
The murphy bed
Barbara and Nancy
Becca's tuckered out
The two exercise freaks.
Amy and Barbara in the kitchen
The dining area
Linda helped Brenda with her swimsuit
That's better
Brenda had to sleep with Nancy
Amy made a delicious breakfast
Someone's suitcase ready to go on Day 2
The gang ready to hit the road on Day 2
Ulysses S. Grant's home in Galena, Illinois. It wasn't open Monday and Tuesday's.
Linda
Everyone but Linda
We stopped for morning coffee at a coffee shop in old town Galena.
Rockliffe Mansion in Galena, Illinois. We wanted to tour this mansion but another group was touring and we didn't have the time to wait.
Steps
Nancy on steps
Nancy conquers steps
Someone took this picture of Linda taking a picture.
Somehow Cousin Itt got into the back seat of the van.
A bridge somewhere.
Brenda was a so-so traveller.
Brenda had to make a pit stop in a road-side ditch. Enlarge the photo by clicking on it to see her squatting in the bushes.
Brenda was thirsty.
Food R Us
There was severe flooding along the Mississippi in Illinois.
Joseph Smith's house in Nauvoo, Illinois. No one wanted to stop but Becca, who was interested in the historical significance of the community of Mormons.
Nauvoo dwelling
Printing office in Nauvoo
Joseph Smith's grave near his home in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Miscellaneous old house
Eating at an Italian restaurant in Quincy, Illinois. Becca thought the food was awful. (salty!)
Suzanne is the naughty one here.
Barbara had complimentary tiramisu for dessert since the order took two hours to complete. Becca didn't want any more of their rotten food.
Belvedere mansion in Galena, Illinois
Brenda wanted to go through the Taco Bell drive-thru.
On the deck at Lynn and Linda's in Jackson, Missouri
Lynn and Linda built this deck themselves.
Nancy, Brenda and Suzanne in the hottub at Lynn and Linda's.
Brenda was the first to belly up to the bar in Lynn and Linda's beautifully-done lower floor.
We nearly drowned during a storm in Memphis
The levee in New Orleans
The levee
and the levee again
Nancy using Brenda as a fan.
Breakfast on Bourbon Street
Brenda had grits.
Later, Brenda had beignets and coffee with milk in French at the Cafe du Monde
Mr. Roboto
Copper Man
We gave Copper Man a dollar to pose with Brenda. He said to say 'Hi, Brenda!'
The flirty balloon man.
A 12-foot-long hot dog.
A palm reader
Zeno gives the group the come-on
Fortune tellers and palm readers
The tour of the French Quarter
A boutique
The hanging plants and flowers were lovely
The French Quarter of New Orleans
The gang on the trolley
The unlucky mule
Changing the mule's air bag
The French Market
Chartres Street
Zeno, our mule-drawn trolley driver
The New Orleans School of Cooking
The flea market where we bought 'stuff.'
We fed the fat pigeons in the Cafe du Monde
Robert E Lee in New Orleans
A dog waiting for his master to finish drinking at this pub
Becca took this but forgot what it was
Oh no, Marito!
Barbara and Marito
Brenda is welcomed to Mississippi
Cedar Grove Mansion, a bed and breakfast in Vicksburg, Mississippi
Cedar Grove was a Union hospital during the Civil War, which saved it from destruction during the Battle of Vicksburg
The entry hall
A cannon ball pierced the floor here during the Siege of Vicksburg and the hole is preserved under glass.
The women's parlor.
The smoking room.
The formal dining room.
The not-so-formal dining room.
A place setting.
Brenda is seated in the dining room.
The safe looks like a sideboard or buffet so it went undetected even during Union occupation of the house.
Rooms in the bed and breakfast
A beautiful chandelier.
This chandelier was pink.
This grand piano is so rare (one of 12 existing world-wide) that its worth is one million dollars. No one is allowed to open it.
There were several large bird cages throughout the mansion.
The wicker room.
The children's rocking chair.
The library.
The chess table in the library.
Bookshelves in the library and a bust of Longfellow
Suzanne relaxing
Nancy on her cell
Linda driving as usual
A common scene
This Church of Christ is circa A D 33. Old!
A bridge in Vicksburg, Mississippi
A cannon that was used to attack Vicksburg during the Civil War.
The Highway 61 Delicatessen
Mica and Trey of the Highway 61 Delicatessen in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
Mica's artwork greets you as you come in the door
Our table in the back
There were guitars all over just waiting to be picked up and played
Amy sang our order to the waitress.
Eric (Little e) and Damien (Damo) who danced for us
Leaving Highway 61
The House on the Hill
This mansion is owned by a friend of Trey
Trey gave us a tour
The house is haunted. It was supposed to be the setting of 'The Amityville Horror' but the workmen only worked a month before picking up and leaving without notice.
A dead duck in the upper level of the haunted mansion. Spooky!
Inside the haunted house
Slave quarters on the mansion's grounds
Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal, Mississippi
