August 29, 2012

After breakfast, hooking up and dumping, we drove back to Lincoln’s Tomb.  It opened at 9:00 am and we got there at 10:00 am.  There were only three people besides us there.  The inside of the tomb is really beautiful.  Lincoln is in a crypt inside the tomb and his wife and three of their four children are in the wall across from him.   

We left and drove to Vincennes, Indiana.  We stopped at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park.  This is where George Rogers Clark (brother of William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame) and a small group of Kentucky militiamen captured the British fort at Vincennes by surprise in 1779 without incurring any casualties.  This led to the annexation by the United States of the Northwest Territories and eventually the rest of the western U.S.  We arrived at the monument at what we thought was 3:00 pm and they closed at 5:00 pm.  We didn’t know we had crossed into the Eastern time zone a block from the memorial.  It was really 4:00 pm but we were the only ones there and the Ranger took us to see the inside of the memorial and then we watched a movie.  We left at 5:00 pm.   

We got a site in Oaktown, Indiana at a Passport America RV park and then I fixed supper.  We had not eaten since this morning.  After eating we washed three loads of clothes and watched the Republican National Convention.  The park was only $11 a night but of course it’s between a major highway, railroad track and a rock crushing yard.  The rock yard should close at dark and the highway should get less crowded as the night goes on.  We don’t know about the trains.  It’s going to be an interesting night!