We only got a little south of Green Bay and lost a bearing cover off the boat trailer. We had to pull into a truck stop, unhitch the truck from the 5th wheel and go buy a new one. Of course we didn't have a big enough hammer to whack it in place. So we had to hitch up and go to a boat dealer down the road and have them do it. To top it off we hit a detour, major road construction and traffic at a dead crawl in Rockford, Il. We got to the campground just at dark and by the time we got to a restaurant to eat it was 7:30pm.
Our second day of traveling we stopped for the night in Whittington, IL. The campground we stayed at was called Whittington Woods. It did have beautiful woods but it also came with poultry running around loose. I took these pictures right outside our rig. There were also three turkeys but they stayed close to the coop.
Whittington is famous for Burton's Cafe. We had to go try it and see if we agreed that it was good home cooking. It was very good -- I had homemade ham and bean soup with cornbread and Jim had some fried catfish. What they are really famous for is their "white pie". I had a piece and it was very good, light and fluffy. They won't say what is in it but if I had to guess one of the ingredients is tapioca pudding.
We are now camped in West Memphis, AR probably for the next two weeks. Its very nice and warm!
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