Vacation notes

Hello all! Just returned from our vacation and wanted to post a few thoughts about the vacation and photos. This is the first time I used Twitter and TwitPic to update our vacation. Let me know if I bored you with my twits and photos... In addition, I used my Blackberry Curve with Internet access, via the EDGE network and wi-fi, to map our driving course, get local address and phone numbers, weather update, news as well as to submit my twits and twitpics. I have to be honest...it was really nice to have the Balckberry on the trip.

Itinerary took us to these following cities:

• Burr Oak, IA
  
• Galena, IL
  
• Springfield, IL
  
• Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO
  
• Mansfield, MO
  
• Wilson Creek Nat'l Battlefield in Springfield, MO
  
• Independence and Kansas City, MO
  

A few of the highlights:

• Lincoln home with original furnishing
  
• Old State Capitol where President Lincoln lay in state following his assassination
  
• Dana-Thomas house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is a whopping 12,000 sq. ft. residence which still retain much of its original furniture and stained glass windows
  
• Laura Ingalls Wilder's home in Mansfield, MO
  
• Hotel where the Ingalls worked at in Burr Oak. 25 cents per night will get you 1/3 a bed...
  
• Catching crawdads in Mansfield, MO
  
• Seeing my first Indigo Bunting in Mansfield
  
• Truman house which looked as it did in 1972 when he passes away. And, seeing his trademark hat and trench coat
  
• KC Royals baseball game even though we caught in a downpour and hail!

Reflecting pool at the Dana-Thomas House

Old Illinois State Capitol

Route 66

Gateway Arch

Wilsons Creek

Canons at Wilsons Creek

Crawdad...