Airplanes, Food, Cars, Family, Indians, Explorers

Five days in, here's a collection of sights so far.

To the left, Jim in front of Bockscar - the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. (from the Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson - Dayton)

Next, here we have Janet skydiving in Dayton. It was all I could do to strap her in the chute and get her on the plane. But I think she ended

up really liking it.

Because we were just a little bit hungry, the sandwich Janet ordered at Lumpy's in Cambridge City, Indiana. Have been making meals from this for days.


Corvettes from Midwest Motorsports in Effingham, Illinois. According to the literature, 3 of these are valued at over a $1M each. (The CERV-I Indy Car model (1960?) in the first photo - of which only 4 were made - is valued at $2.5M!!!.) Is that possible?

Jim reading his Dad's Lindbergh letter at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis - plus the actual receipt signed by Charles Lindbergh for his Ryan "Spirit of St. Louis" aircraft.

The "Arch", our first ever World Heritage Site at Cahokia Mounds outside St. Louis (incredible - why didn't we learn about this in school?), and Lewis and Clark stuff we continue to study as we travel along the Mississippi and Missouri.

All for now. More narrative the next time around but I'm so thrilled to have successfully downloaded photos that I wanted to do this catch-up. Tomorrow we head to Springfield, Missouri, dodging tornados, and then on to Iowa.

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