Traveling from Cave-in-Rock to Benton

Since we only had 62 miles to travel today, we took our time this morning in breaking camp at Cave-in-Rock State Park. By the time we emptied our holding tanks at the dump station and hitched up the car and left the State Park it was 11:07. There are no dumpsters at the State Park (the dumpsters were taken out to save on operating expenses), so we took our 2 bags of garbage with us.

As we were driving along near the Ohio River, we saw this deep-sea fishing boat going north on the river.

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We drove north on IL-1

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an Ohio River Scenic Byway for about 12 miles.

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Then we drive west on IL-13 for 4 miles to IL-142 the Lincoln Heritage Trail

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and then west on the Raleigh Road to Raleigh.We stopped at the intersection of Raleigh Road and IL-34 and parked at a closed auto garage to fix lunch at 12:05.

After lunch we continued north on IL-34 and passed by this coal mine near Galatia

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and a long train of coal cars.

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We stayed north on IL-34

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to Benton and to my cousin's house. We arrived at Frances' house just a few minutes after 1:00. We parked the RV near their pole barn and connected to the 50 amp electric box they had installed for our visit. We have water and sewer connections, too. We let Tinker out and he had a great time checking out the yard and he did pretty good being off leash.

After setting up our motorhome we visited with Frances and later on her husband Jack when he came home from work. Frances fixed a pork roast for dinner - it smelled good while it was cooking and tasted even better. We watched some TV with Frances and Jack after dinner before coming back over to the RV.