10/20 - St Louis Zoo

On 10/20 we spent the day visiting the St Louis Zoo.  It's part of St Louis's fantastic Forest Park which has, among other things, the zoo, the St Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and the Missouri History Museum.

We are generally not fond of zoos, but wanted to see this one because it's one of the most famous.  It's very well done and we did enjoy it.

Sea lion feeding time.

10/19 - Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illnois

On 10/19 we visited the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, the largest prehistoric earthworks in the Americas.  I read about it years ago and had wanted to see it ever since.  The complex was very interesting and well worth visiting.

 

This shows what the Monks Mound would have looked like 1000 years ago.

Monks Mound, east side

Monks Mound, front, showing stairway to top

St Louis skyline from Monks Mound

Picture taken at the top of the mound with St Louis in the background. The person who took the picture was from Raleigh, NC, the first North Carolinian of several we met on our travels.

10/18 - Georgetown to Cahokia, Illinois

On 10/18 we left Georgetown to travel due west to Cahokia, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.  It was a beautiful drive through northern Kentucky, southern Indiana and southern Illinois.  I-64 had very little traffic on it so an excellent route to take.

Ohio River, the border between Kentucky and Indiana, from the I-64 bridge at Louisville.

Rock cuts on I-64 in Indiana.

Indiana farmland

Wabash River, the Indiana-Illinois border

10/15 to 10/17 - Georgetown, Kentucky

In the fall of 2014, after spending months getting settled in our new house, we were finally able to hit the road.  This was before I started doing a travel blog so I am reconstructing the trip from pictures as best I can. (It's now spring of 2018.)  These entries will be much shorter and less informative than my later posts.

Our first stop, on 10/15, was at a very nice RV park in Georgetown, Kentucky, just to the north of Lexington.  It's gorgeous green country with lots of horse farms.  The distance from Asheville to  Georgetown is a comfortable day's drive.

10/16 - We drove over to Frankfort (about 25 miles) to tour the Kentucky State Capitol Building.  It was really beautiful and very interesting.  

Kentucky State Capitol from the front.  The day was drizzly so wasn't good for outside pictures.

The law library was decorated for Halloween.  Several people had obviously been bored to death.

Murals

in the rotunda.

Right wing front, built with Indiana limestone.

Senate chambers.

Trees along the circle in front of the building.

The next day, 10/17, we went to the Veterans WMA (Wildlife Management Area) near the campground.  It certainly didn't take up the whole day but after all this time I have no idea what else we did.  If I didn't take pictures, I can't remember!

 

  Veterans Wildlife Management Area.  Lovie was the only wildlife spotted.