ILLINOIS

sunday we did the Ulysses s grant national park and learnt all about the old boy..he was no in favor of slaves and had many discussion with his father in law regarding having them...visit his house and farm where he lived after he got married.. we are now in springfield, il and on our way stopped by a new museum (free) about route 66 and the town of lichtfield an interesting little museum..we also had lunch in a old route 66 diner...both os us had fish and about 1/2 hr after we got back on the road my old stomach (guts) started to do flip flops and it wasn't to long after we stopped at a rest area to use the restrooms...so I was glad we only had a short day of driving as I really started to not feel so good...not sure if I have a touch of food poisoning or not...or it could be I had French fries which I haven't eaten in a long time but they did taste good... tomorrow we plan on visiting with abe Lincoln--- maybe the state museum and more route 66 stuff all up in the air as to what and all we want to see here.. we are camped in the Illinois state fair grounds which is good size and we sure lucked out on this one...their state fair ended yesterday so there were some spaces available...glad we didn't want to be here over the weekend...