Our friends the Heimers arrived this morning. They drove from Minnesota and will travel with us the rest of the trip home. Kirk left for home in their car. Worked out pretty slick.
Pretty quiet on the river today for the most part.
Our one bit of excitement was when we passed this group of guys bow hunting for Asian carp. We slowed down and watched while they made several passes back and forth in the shallows along shore. I think we were as vocal hooting and hollering as they were as the fish would jump out. You can see by the photo that one guy drives and the other two have their bows at the ready. You might have to click on the photo to enlarge it enough to see, but they have a line attached to the arrow so they can retrieve it. This time it looks like the carp got away!There aren’t any marinas in this section
of the river to stay at, so we were grateful to be able to tie up for the night along this crane barge at Beardstown, Illinois. For those of you wondering why Beardstown sounds familiar it is where a group of ladies formed an investment club, were very successful at it and eventually published a book as to how to go about starting your own club. The average age of these gals when they formed the club was 70. Senior power!!!
A local recommended a good place to eat up town called The Café From Yesterday. We laughed about the name figuring they served leftovers or something. 
The inside had a tin ceiling and the walls had many old photos of the area from the early 1900’s. By the time we finished the meal we understood more the “yesterday” part of the name. The menu and its prices looked like they were out of the 60’s. For $7.99 we had a large dinner salad, 3 giant pieces of fried chicken, a pile (and I mean a pile!) of real mashed potatoes and made from scratch gravy. Plus a giant corn meal muffin. I get plenty of ribbing from people for taking photos of my food. Well I wish I had taken one of this meal because describing it doesn’t do it justice. We all brought home leftover containers that will be lunch for the next 2 days. Cripes, can’t hardly eat at McDonalds for $7.99!
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