Day 3 St Louis MO – Lynnville IN to Granite City IL – 179 miles through IN and IL

Still hotter than blazes everywhere we go. We were up at 8, had some coffee and breakfast, and started to get ready to go. Our neighbors were out back in the shade and were quite friendly and chatty. We did manage to leave at 10 am which was fine since it was a short day.

We took our time and made a couple of stops including lunch at a rest area. We arrived at the Granite City IL KOA campground at 2. Granite City is just across the river from St Louis in an industrial area. The campground isn’t too bad, with trees and full hookups. We took our time getting hooked up because it was so horribly hot and humid. We would do a couple of things and then cool off inside. We will be here for 3 nights, so it was great to put the slideout out along with the awning and lawn chairs.

At 5:30 we took off to investigate the Lewis and Clark Historical Center just up the road from us. It was closed for the day, but from what we can tell, there are lots interesting exhibits in the center. Bill is excited that we will see the start and finish of the expedition in just this one trip. Two years ago we saw some of the middle section.

Then we went to dinner at Ravanelli’s in Granite City. It is an inexpensive Italian restaurant that advertised in the KOA brochure. The food wasn’t too bad for the price. Bill got the most enormous entrée salad either of us has ever seen. We stopped at Walmart to pick up a couple of items and then took the Tracker to a car wash to clean off the RV grime.

Now we are reveling in the coolness of the RV.