(Last updated: September 23, 2018)
In August 2018, Gail and Russell celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary (four months late) by taking a one-month cruise all the way up the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, almost to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Our vessel was the American Queen, a modern-day paddle-wheel steamboat. We hope you have as much fun reading about our adventures as we had experiencing them!
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August 16, 2018: Gail’s Bucket List
August 17, 2018: New Orleans: “Warning: severe toe-tapping or dancing about may occur“
August 18, 2018: New Orleans: “This is an eating town.”
August 18, 2018: New Orleans at Night
August 19, 2018: Whitney Plantation: The Story of Slavery
August 20, 2018: And So It Begins…
August 21, 2018: Nottaway Plantation, Louisiana: Tally Ho!
August 22, 2018: St. Francisville, Louisiana: The Day the Civil War Stopped
August 23, 2018: Natchez, Mississippi: A Day with Regina Charboneau
August 24, 2018: Vicksburg, Mississippi: Lincoln Meets Davis
August 25, 2018: Greenville, Mississippi: “It’s a sin not to stop and talk to people”
August 26, 2018: Reflections on the Lower Mississippi (Gail)
August 27, 2018: Memphis, Tennessee: Bicycling to Arkansas
August 28, 2018: Life on a Paddle-Wheel Steamboat
August 29, 2018: Hickman, Kentucky: Discovery Park of America
August 29, 2018: Confluence and Canal
August 30, 2018: Paducah, Kentucky: Southern Hospitality
August 30, 2018: The Bicycle Accident
August 31, 2018: Cape Girardeau, Missouri:A Visit to the Emergency Room
September 1, 2018: Chester, Illinois: In Search of Popeye
September 2, 2018: St. Louis, Missouri: The Cahokia Mounds
September 3, 2018: Alton, Illinois: In Lincoln’s Footsteps
September 4, 2018: Hannibal, Missouri: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home
September 5, 2018: The Mississippi River says “You shall not pass”
September 5, 2018: Grafton, Illinois: From the Mississippi to the Illinois
September 6, 2018: Aboard the American Queen
September 7, 2018: Havana, Illinois: In the Land of Lincoln
September 8, 2018: Peoria, Illinois: City of Sculptures
September 9, 2018: Ottawa, Illinois: Birds and a Barge
September 10, 2018: Goodbye Queen, Hello Princess
September 11, 2018: La Crosse, Wisconsin: Family Time
September 12, 2018: Iowa and Minnesota: Little House on the Prairie
September 13, 2018: The Great River Road
September 23, 2018: Mississippi Memories: A Retrospective (Gail)