Our Recent Trip to Springfield, Illinois

Sorry, I am a bit behind....  but shortly after our South Dakota trip, we decided to try to do a long weekend trip back to the Springfield Illinois area!

We planned to go in the middle of March.  It looked like the town had a St. Patrick's Day Parade planned for the time we would be there...  we could visit the various museums, etc. etc.

Well, as you know, the whole Coronavirus scare really hit that weekend.  Our trip didn't go exactly as we planned.

Still, we went and we got the most out of our couple of days in town.

We drove through Indianapolis, then on to Illinois.  We stopped at the Salt Kettle Illinois visitor center/rest area.  This was a nice stop in a beautiful area.  There were lots of free promotional brochures and magazines on various towns in the state.  I love this sort of thing.  There were a couple of guys there eager to help with travel advice and all too.  They gave me a bag to carry all of the magazines I took!

We stopped for lunch in Bloomington Illinois.  I asked a young lady there about Route 66, asking her where I could pick it up.  She had no idea what I was talking about.

Anyway, we got to Springfield pretty much to find that everything was closing or restricted.  We were still able to do a lot, but this would change quickly.

The St. Patrick's Day parade ended up being cancelled.  Some of the national parks and museum type attractions were open, but we would hear that they would be closing over the next day or two.

We still made the most of our trip!