GREETINGS FROM INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (IN) USA We are now in the “Speedway Capital of the World” – Indianapolis – the capital and largest city in the state. You have got to hand it to the Americans – you name it and they have a “Capital of the World” of it […]

 GREETINGS FROM SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (IL) USA Another new state today – Illinois. Although we had been in the state on our drive between Hannibal and St Louis in Missouri, we are now physically staying in the state. And today it was really all about the 16th President of the United […]

MORE GREETINGS FROM ST. LOUIS, Missouri (MO) USA A day to take in the major sights of the city, the skyline of which is dominated by the Gateway Arch. By the late 1800’s, St Louis was estimated to be the 4th largest city in the USA (It is now about […]

  GREETINGS FROM ST. LOUIS, Missouri (MO) USA A drive down the mighty Mississippi (next to it of course, not in it) has bought us to St Louis, a major port on the famous river. We are still in Missouri however briefly today we were across the border in Illinois – […]

 GREETINGS FROM HANNIBAL, Missouri (MO) USA State number 32 – Missouri (or  Missoura as it seems to be called in the south of the state) and in fact we have driven from one side of the state to the other – west to east – in the day.  And …………. […]