Hello from Illinois!

We left Columbus on Tuesday after a great weekend with 3 of our grandchildren and their parents!
I decided that we should stop in Dayton and visit the Wright Brother's Cycle Shop and National Park Center. We seem to be on a Wright theme here! As all the National Parks, it was extremely well done. We now understand how an airplane works and were fascinated to learn how much and how they figured things out. Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African American poet was also featured-fascinating story. Then we went to another museum to see the actual 1905 plane. There is so much more to see in Dayton especially the air museum which would take all day. It is an easy jaunt from Columbus so we will do it on another trip.
Today we spent the afternoon in Springfield, Illinois. First we went to Frank Lloyd Wright's largest prairie style house, the Dana Thomas house. Very different than any we had seen, and early, it is filled with gorgeous stained glass windows and lights.
Next was Abraham Lincoln's home which is in a four block National Park district for pedestrians only. We had a tour of the home (on my wish list) and walked through the district. Again, many things to see in Springfield related to Lincoln if we had more time.
Off toward St Paul tomorrow......
Love, Rachel and Jay