Detour to Louisiana

Day 14 found us leaving St. Louis and heading towards the last night of our odyssey.

We starting out the day by eating at Bob Evans.

We took a less-traveled road along the Missouri side of the Mississippi and went through a number of small towns. We crossed over to Illinois at Louisiana.

We had started to see evidence of the flooding that was occurring and it looked like springtime as we crossed the bridge. The locks on the dams were wide open. We continued to travel north in Illinois passing through other small towns and some larger ones. We got to Rock Island and started looking for signs for where we were staying, but couldn't see any. The GPS would not take the address I had punched in just like last year. We kept driving looking for a sign. Finally Linda decided to stop at a liquor store and ask. The people inside didn't speak so much English but a lady in the store did. She said she was going that way and just to follow her. 

So, eventually we found our  way to Jumer's Casino and Hotel. We had stayed here last year on our way back from Kansas City and had enjoyed it.

The rooms were nice and uniquely laid out. The bed looked normal.

The desk area looked normal. 

But the shower had frosted glass between it and the room.

You could sort of see through it.

One place we had not eaten at on this trip was a Steak and Shake. Time was running out, so we found one over in Moline. It took awhile to find it as the address did not register on our GPS. I think it was maybe the fault of the web site though this time. 

This place doesn't have steaks, but it has ground steak. It does have great milkshakes. Lindy had the Choconana which is banana on one side and chocolate on the other.

I had the fresh peach.

They have great burgers and skinny little fries that are delicious. I had the Guacburger. They make their own guacamole from scratch daily.

They also have this great pepper sauce which is peppers from the Amazon and vinegar. It added a great zing to the fries.

It was time to go back and try our luck at the casino. The casino is nice because it is smoke free and they have a nice variety of games to play. One of the strangest games was called Kitty Glitter.

When you got the bonus, the kitties would meow in the most annoying way. I didn't win too much on Kitty Litter, er, Glitter.

The big winner tonight was Lindy. She won 4040 on the bonus. Too bad it was pennies instead of dollars.
We didn't stay out quite as late as our night in Memphis, plus we still had 277 miles to go to get home so we went back to our hotel room and nestled in for the evening.