I have several interesting posts to do on my just completed micro-RV trip into southern Illinois. As usual I managed to avoid interstate highways for  all but four miles of the 700+ adventure.  Anyone even vaguely familiar with Illinois know that the vast majority of the state’s population resides in the extreme northeast around Chicago. I can hereby attest that there are almost no people in the southern half of the state!  OK, maybe I am exaggerating a little bit but only a little. I must have gone through 100 small towns during my two day visit. Almost none of them had … Continue reading Trip Report – Southern Illinois… Give Them a Break..

This is a needed “lighten up” day so I thought I would give you some more facade pics of my recent uRV trip to New Harmony Indiana.  When so many small towns are piling on the dust bins of history  it is nice to see that some are almost flourishing. (as usual click on any image below to see a larger slideshow version) Continue reading New Harmony

     You don’t know America if you have never eaten at a small town cafe. This one in Ennis Montana like so many others is proud of its heritage. We had breakfast there, a big place of sausage gravy and biscuits so didn’t have a change to try their strawberry pie… The biscuits were kind of hard but the gravy was very good. Continue reading Small Town Life

Small towns like Orleans in Orange County Indiana were once thriving towns.  I can imagine that the domed top of this building was the major attraction in the area.  Like most building of this era some of the windows have been bricked … Continue reading Small Town America…