Mark Twain Boyhood Home

This morning we left the Missouri River and trudged eastward on SR 36. It is now 200 miles of four lane across Missouri. We passed through country side closely resembling Ohio in landscape and town names. J.C. Penney, Pershing, and Walt Disney were all from this area. This afternoon we stopped on the west bank of the Mississippi at Hannibal, Missouri (Tomorrow we start back across Illinois). The Twain Museum and Hannibal is interesting although we prefer scenery to pictures and word to read. The museum also has 15 Norman Rockwell originals depicting Mark Twain scenes and a special Thomas Benton gallery is currently displayed.