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First night - a dinner cruise on the "Mark Twain"
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Suitable riverboat entertainment
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Judy likes this one. Outvoted again.
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Looking down river
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We traded photo-ing with another couple
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The riverboat crew
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Looking up at Lover's Leap
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It was pleasant on deck
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"Can you hear me now?"
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They played their caliope
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Sunset singing on deck
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That kid was just mesmerized
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Neat sunset
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Docking at the end of the cruise
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After debarking
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At the start of the Cave tour - Sean, our guide
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The primary entrance - the one we used
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The one used by Sam Clemens (and Tom Sawyer)
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Most passages are vertical
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It's all limestone
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There were about 25 folks on our tour
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Neat stuff
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They claim 250,000 autographs on the walls
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Bats used to roost here
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A quartz node in the limestone
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"Injun Joe buried the treasure at No. 2, under the cross."
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They have to name the formations - it's a rule!
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Some of those brown spots are bats - some aren't
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There are some flow formations in the wetter portions of the cave
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And some colored lights for effect
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The tour is largely tied to the Tom Sawyer stories
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Twain used this cave prominently in Tom Sawyer
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Hannibal was the model for Sawyer's St Petersburg
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Most of the characters had real-life counterparts
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We tried to make a panoramic view to show all of Hannibal
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Entering Hannibal from the Illinois side of the river
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A good place for ice cream - a hot fudge brownie sundae
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The owner collects old cars like this Crosley
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And this Packard
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Looking down from Lover's Leap
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Lover's Leap is now fenced - no jumping allowed
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Awsome storm a-building
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Sam Clemens' actual boyhod home
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Most of the rooms inside have Twain mannequins
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All those quotes are good promos for the autobiography
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Judy took a picture of her reflection
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The home of the real-life model for Becky Thatcher
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A relatively new place to indulge
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Our waitress rehearsing her Jr Miss talent - "Hound Dawg"
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The whole staff sings "Amazing Grace"
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In the Twain Museum
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Fantasy?
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He cultivated a distinctive appearance
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A Purple Martin house on the waterfront
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Three tenants can be seen
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Riverboat, highway bridge, railway bridge
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Old meets new
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There are Twain statues everywhere
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Another photography swap
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Opened as a vaudeville house in 1906 - now a dinner theater
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Tom and Huck at the base of Cardiff Hill - site of an old fort
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Judy wanted to climb to that lighthouse on the hill
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It's not a real lighthouse - just a tourism artifact
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244 stairs up to the lighthouse
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And you can't even climb it . . .
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It's easier going down . . .
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An ex-bordello is now a very good restaurant and B&B
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We didn't ride this train, even though it followed us home. And we end here