Trail at Fantastic Caverns, Springfield, Missouri (in the Ozarks).
Trisha at the trail
Moss from a stream that drains the underground river in the lower level of the cave.
Propane-fuelled jeeps drive visitors through this drive-through cave, the only one in the USA (and probably the whole world!)
Entrance. Missouri is called the cave state with more than 5500 caves!
We were driving through the upper level, where the river only gets when it's extreme high water. Here is one of the holes leading to the (smaller) lower level, half full of water from the river and some endangered species of cave fish.
The giants. Each a different color because of different materials dripping out of the roof.
Every morning they had to use a sledge hammer to break open the exit because of the build-up of ice.
On the road, further South through the part of the Ozarks that's in Arkansas.
Buffalo river, a white water river.
Ice is beautiful!
Leaf
View
Buffalo River Canyon
Buffalo River Canyon - viewpoint
The self made house of a very hospitable family where we could stay for the night, just outside Hot Springs and Ouachita National Forest.
Wow!
Back on the road, from Arkansas through Mississippi to New Orleans in Lousiana
Third state on our trip
The famous Great River Road, following the Mississippi River from North to South. This part is in the state of Mississippi.
Flat lands as we follow the river
Driving...
Vicksburg. One of the most significant battles of the Civil war took place here, opening the Mississippi river for the Unionists and freeing 30.000 slaves. 30.000 people died for that.
One of the many places from which they bombarded the city for days.
Remants of trenches. More than 100.000 soldiers were fighting here for many weeks.
Cairo, one of the first Steam Battleships and the first warship in history to be sunk by a mine.
2,5 inch (6,5 cm) thick massive metal plates as armor...
BIG
Station at the river
View of New Orleans from Algiers, on the other side of the Mississippi River
1794 St. Louis Cathedral
Typical balconies in New Orleans & Algiers
We could stay at a YwaM base!
Leaving in the morning
On the ferry to the New Orleans side of the river.
view of the French Quarter
New Orleans
The Moonwalk
French Quarter
St. Louis Cathedral
8am in the morning. Every day art, music and occult/voodoo practices are set up on these streets
Balconies!
Beauregard-Keyes house
French breakfast at Croissant D'Or!
And this is winter...
'Fachwerk' house - Lafitte's Blacksmith shop
Bourbon Street
Cornstalk Hotel
Morning talk
Waiting in the Sun for the ferry that we just missed
Leaving New Orleans
Roads on long, long bridges through the swamps around New Orleans
Texas! Our fifth state
Home far away from home. They spelled it right!
High bridges in the midst of flat land in Eastern Texas
Towards Galveston, south of Houston. Florida-feel
Galveston, famous beach
Me & Udo, the faithful little car
I don't know what worms/animals poop this out, but it looks cool. It was laying around everywhere.
Beautiful shell
Leaving Galveston
TheCall prayer meeting in Houston, preparing for the march next day
Lou Engle and many national leaders, praying in unity!
On our way to the march, in the morning.
Big and small
Downtown Houston
Prayer gathering before the march. We were praying for the Lord to bring down the huge abortion clinic that Planned Parenthood currently is preparing in Houston, the 2nd largest in the world. A factory of death.
So exciting to see Latino's, African Americans and white people gather together in such large numbers to pray!
This lady used to work with Planned Parenthood
Meeting other friends from Kansas City/IHOP-KC
That's three times the population of the Netherlands!!!
The clinic...
Stop
Praying
Marching
Crying out for those that have no voice to defend themselves
Back on the road towards San Anonio, central Texas
Cool Texan restaurant in Bandera, a nice little cowboy town where we spend the night.
Stephen, me (& Trisha)
Saddle up bar!
Deer in front of our cabin. We spend hours laying near the river looking at the bright stars.
Cabin
And more cabins
The Alamo in San Antonio. A significant battle in the time of the independence of Mexico and Texas.
The old church building that was captured last.
Original layout of the Spanish Mission of Alamo
Sheriff
Old Barracks wall
Beautiful place!
The riverwalk in central San Antonio
Really cool!
Courthouse
Spanish Cathedral
Mexican market
Gruene (Green, from Grün in German), found by Mr. Grün in the 1870's
My big car
Their motto is 'gently resisting change since 1872'
Gruene Hall, oldest dance hall in Texas. All made of creaking wood.
Lone star from the Netherlands
Next door: great restaurant on the riverside in an old cotton gin
Terrace in three levels
German potato salad!
Inside
Garden in the front
Mr. Gruene's son build himself a slightly bigger house
That's what they used to travel all throughout the Great Plains to Texas and California!
currently a hotel
split second too late!
New life!
Capitol Building in Austin, Texas, the state capital. Higher than the White House in Washington DC.
Amerikan and Texan flag
The Prayer Room in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Such a great place! We visited a former NightWatcher from IHOP-KC who now works there.
Back on the road for our last day, with Jenn telling us where to go.
To Oklahoma state and city. The state where all the native Indians were 're-located' (dumped).
Nice place to eat lunch in the old town of Guthrie, the former state capital of Oklahoma.
Former capitol building, now a huge Masonic temple...
There is a lot of oil in Oklahoma
Bisons!!!
Look at that one on the right: huge!
In Kansas state. Our seventh state.
Tall prairie grass reservation. Gave a little feel for what the Great Plains must have looked like long ago.
Geese
