We’re walking…

Seeing beautiful sunrises never gets old. These two pics were taken 20 minutes apart today:

And here’s a couple of boat pics with our cockpit enclosure up:

We spent most of today on our feet walking around Quincy, IL, which was the third-largest city in Illinois in the 1850s. There are dozens of parks and we saw our fair share. Quincy also has several museums, but they had limited hours and we weren’t really in the mood, so we ended up at the local movie theater to see the new Agatha Christie movie, “A Haunting in Venice.” It’s very dark, in both storyline and cinematography, but is a nice thriller and we enjoyed doing something for a change that wasn’t touristy or boat-related. We walked more than nine miles in 85-degree heat, which we hadn’t planned on doing. Our intel said that there was Lyft service here (no Uber), but we had no luck getting our ride request accepted, and the only taxi service listed in town had a phone number that was out of service. Next time we take the folding bikes.

One park we visited on Quinsippi Island is a recreation of a mid-19th century log cabin village, which began as an Eagle Scout project in the late 1960s. It’s quite interesting, with six cabins, including homesteads, corn crib, smokehouse and chapel. About 100 yards from these structures is a stone monument and plaque, erected in 2003 (also by a Boy Scout), indicating that the land was along the Potawatomi Trail of Death. One of many campaigns that forcibly removed Native Americans from their homes and land, at least 40 perished during this relocation and were buried along the trail. In hindsight, I think that this contrast was partly responsible for not wanting to visit any local museums today.