travel plans

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Funny! Ann and Jack Armstrong's tombstones and that sign seemed out of place with the other tombstones and the surroundings. After New Salem, I went to Middletown, Il it had had a stagecoach inn used by Lincoln and another building that Lincoln frequented. Took a side trip to Beardstown to see the courthouse of the famous "Full Moon" trial. Along the route at the county lines stand a circuit marker and a plaque of Lincoln. Great art! Sometimes in the most far away, obscure places, really cool. It was also nice to travel roads that Lincoln took that has never been paved! I stayed every night at a state park and some of the trails and old roads reminded me of what the circuit might have looked like during Lincoln's time. Then went to Metamora to see the original courthouse that Lincoln attended. Love original Lincoln Courthouses! More later.