Day 11 - on the road
Day 11 finds us traveling through Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Today we stopped at Fox Ridge State Park and Eastern Illinois University.
Information on Fox Ridge State Park
Information on Eastern Illinois University
Today was the start of our journey to the southwest. We headed out bright and early. We traveled through Michigan, down to Toledo, Ohio over to Lafayette, Indiana. Lafayette is home to Purdue University and sits on the Wabash River. Several Native American Tribes settled in the Lafayette area before white settlers came to Indiana. We had a picnic lunch at Armstrong Park named after Neil Armstrong the first astronaut to walk on the moon, he attended college at Purdue. Information about - Armstrong park It was raining when we left Lafayette and headed southwest to Springfield, Illinois. Springfield is the capital of Illinois and the "Land of Lincoln". Lincoln came to Springfield to practice law in 1837, would marry and eventually be elected President of the United States. Information on - Springfield,IL Reese is dressed in a gingham dress from the time period of the late 1930's - 1940's. The dress is made out of gingham fabric which has a super neat history...
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