Chicago, Illinois – for Downtown Chicago

Davenport, Iowa – for Davenport, Galena and Dubuque

Springfield, Illinois – for Downtown Springfield and Camp Butler National Cemetery

St Louis, Missouri – for Downtown St Louis and Forest Park

Jonesboro, Illinois – for Cairo, Cape Girardeau, Trail of Tears State Park and Shawnee National Forest

Elizabethtown, Kentucky – for Kentucky Railroad Museum, Lincoln’s Birthplace and Maker’s Mark Distillery

Cincinnati, Ohio – for Downtown Cincinnati, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Union Railroad Terminal

Wapakoneta, Ohio – for Troy, Dowtown Wapakoneta and the Armstrong Air & Space Museum

Marshall, Michigan – for Van Wert (OH), Marshall, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo

To put the trip into context, here is an annotated map showing the circular route and all nine locations:

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The following photo galleries are based on the above nine locations in order of travel (except for Chicago galleries – alphabetical).

Within each photo gallery all text in peach refers to the journey whilst text in white refers to the places and locations visited.

Text in brackets below refer to the image.

For now only Wapakoneta and Marshall have photo galleries – others are coming soon.