Heritage Travel Campaign-Part 25 (Southeast Missouri)
Part 25 of my "Heritage" travel campaign. After Labor Day weekend, I left southern Illinois and headed west across the Mississippi River into Missouri. Missouri is unofficially the "West," since it is west of the Mississippi River and St. Louis is considered, "The Gateway to the West," hence, the Gateway Arch. https://www.visitmo.com/ https://www.archives.gov/publications... Missouri is a mix of Southern and Western culture. Early settler's settled in the upper 3rd region
Heritage Travel Campaign-Part 24 (Southern Illinois)
Part 24 of my "Heritage" Travel Campaign. After I wrapped up the first half of my road trip in Mobile, Alabama, I took three weeks off and spent it in southern Georgia with friends. We went to Orlando to watch the Miami Hurricanes play the Florida Gators in the first game of the season at Camping World Stadium. The first half of my road trip was all about the South, and the second half was going to be all about the West. Toward the end of August, I decided to get back on the
Heritage Travel Campaign-Part 23 (Mobile, Alabama)
Part 23 of my "Heritage" travel campaign. I left Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi and headed east toward Mobile, Alabama. https://www.mobile.org/ Mobile has a lot to offer visitors, with respect to tourism. There is the USS Alabama battleship museum, which is a part of the Battleship Memorial Park. There is downtown Mobile that features the History Museum of Mobile, along with the surrounding area which features monuments, memorials, and old architecture which all helps one t
Heritage Travel Campaign-Part 22 (Jefferson Davis Presidential Library & Museum)
Part 22 of my "Heritage" travel campaign. I headed south from Vicksburg and explored Biloxi, while stopping by a very controversial, but yet a very prominent place that highlights the life and post-American Civil War residence of West Point graduate (1824-28) U.S. soldier (1825-35, 1846-47), U.S. congressman (Representative, 1845-46, and Senator, 1857-61), U.S. Secretary of War (1853-57) and President of the Confederate States of America (1861-65), Jefferson Davis. https://w
