Springfield, IL - Land of Lincoln

My job has been taking me out to Springfield, IL the past couple of weeks. I do a 2 hour presentation each day and then have some time to explore. It's kind of a neat place and it is filled with tons of history since it is the home of Abraham Lincoln. I got to tour his home and the neighbor he and his family lived in before he was president.
Lincoln's Home

Me on the front steps

The Sitting Room

Hard to imagine the President sitting in an outhouse...

The Shutt home, located just down the street

I also toured the Lincoln Museum which was pretty cool. The best part was the documentary on Lincoln's presidency. He was on mid-40's as the President but accomplished more in the several short years than most of us in a lifetime. It was remarkable to see the aging process that the strain had on him. He probably aged 10-20 years during his presidency. Here is a picture from inside the museum. The lighting wasn't great, but this was very realistic.

The last part of the day took me to the cemetery and the Lincoln tomb. It was very impressive and I had a cool experience as I was one of the last people out for the day so the lady watching over the tomb entrance gave me a history lesson and told me things about Lincoln and the burial that I would have never known. He was intombed 10 feet below the groun and cemented over inside the family tomb to keep grave robbers from stealing his body, seems crazy, but there are crazy people out there.


This is a street view of the capital building in Springfield, very beautiful limestone building.

Then dinner at Saputos, 2 nights in a row actually, the place rocked! Best Italian food I've had in a while.

And last but not least, I flew out of St. Louis, so this is a picture of damage the tornado did to the windows a couple of weeks ago. There were 6 large arches of window like this and all of them were boarded up, that must have been one mean twister!

Until next time, keep living life one adventure at a time!