We are now starting our ninth week on the View.

To celebrate I had the family style breakfast at the Brick Haus Restaurant in Amana. (see photo)  nothing like OJ, fruit, sausage, bacon, eggs, toast, potatoes and a big pancake to start the day right.

We filled up the propane tank in Peoria for the first time since November 2007. We took on 8.1 gallons which should last for 15 weeks of cruising.  When we are not connected to shore power propane runs the fridge, hot water heater, stove, and generator (for A/C).

We are camped near Clinton at Weldon Springs State Park in Central Illinois. The land was purchased by Judge Lawrence Weldon in 1865. Weldon was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln.