Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri

We went to Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived as a boy. We paid $3 each to tour the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, plus the Mark Twain Museum Gallery. It felt good to get some background on his growing up, his travels, his family.

A statue to Twain has been placed in Riverview Park, north of town, on a site overlooking the Mississippi. The park has 465 acres of forested land located on the limestone bluffs above the river.


Water in Mississippi River is still high from recent flooding, but not threatening the city.



We had lunch at the Mark Twain Cafe. One of their specialties is serving onion rings by the foot. They serve them on a 12" spindle mounted vertically on a block of wood. If you order half a foot of onion rings, they drop rings onto the spindle until they are stacked 6 inches high. If you order a foot of rings, they keep piling them on all the way to the top of the spindle. We settled for a smaller standard order of rings, plus chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and Southern-style green beans. Yum!

Back at our campsite in Keokuk we got to work setting up our antenna dishes. We got the TV dish set up and working just fine. We got the internet dish hardware set up, but we'll have to finish getting it working in the morning.