Laura's friend tells us instead of heading to St. Louis to see the gateway to the west we should go cross the Mississippi at Cairo, which I remember from Huck Finn and even think I may have driven through a few years ago (as in Pre Katrina.) In Huckleberry Finn, Cairo is the city that he and Jim are trying to get to and miss in a storm. Well, to some degree, we missed it, too, because it's pretty much gone.
almost everything is boarded up or burnt down.
i don't actually know what happened there. if it's the death of the small farmer and just poverty, or if katrina took them out. i should look it up.
here you can see where the mississippi meets the ohio river.
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