Tuesday, June 1st, Day 26
Carbondale to Chester, Illinois (50 miles)

John and Peggy Show visited us on our off day.
Now, we are off on the trip to Chester, Illinois.
We took the levee route to Chester (home of Popeye).
It was an awesome ride…the flood plains on the land side of the levee go on for thousands of acres of soy, corn and other plantings;
This ride helps me understand the importance of the Mississippi River.
It makes me totally realize an important part of our country for hundreds of years.
There was a coal depot at the river. The importance was the unloading of coal into hundreds of Railroad cars using conveyer belts. There were barges that also were being used to transport coal.
The temperatures today were in the mid 80’s.