Oprah: Day Two

We are in Springfield, Illinois. A great little city about an hour outside of St. Louis. We eat in the Hen House. And learn that this little dinner is reported to be haunted by the ghost of a former cook for a wagon train. Ya just don't get this stuff on a plane trip.

We are in the land of Lincoln, and enjoy touring Lincoln's house and Lincoln's tomb. His entire neighborhood is preserved from 1861. Did you know that his was an integrated neighborhood. Three doors down was a free black man whose house was a stop on the underground railroad. Or that someone tried to steal Lincoln's body for ransom? (the plot was foiled) Or even that Lincoln exhumed his son Willie twice just to look at him?

We arrive in Chicago just in time for rush hour. We search for an hour and a half for our hotel near O'Hara Airport. Thank you Gina for helping us reserve the hotel. You rock girlfriend!