September 11, 2016 - Sunday

'Well Pauper's Pride is back on the road again! We started our journey to FL on our "51st" Anniversary. We had beautiful weather and very light traffic. Our first campsite is in Whittingham, IL, a 6 hour, 278 mile drive. We had stayed here before. Our site is right on Rend Lake. There also is a golf course nearby that we golfed at the last time we were here. But it was too late to get a tee time. After we checked in, we decided to go out for dinner to celebrate our anniversary. But it is a very small town, we didn't even see any fast food places. We saw a young couple walking with their kids and asked them where we could go for a good meal. They directed us to a local "mom & pop" restaurant in the next town, just about 10 minutes away, called Bonnie's cafe. It was fairly crowded and had only one waitress, but the food was delicious real home style cooking. Being that there was only one waitress, Richard said she must be Bonnie, the owner. So of course he had to ask her... She said no this is the town called Bonnie, duh.....we didn't even notice the town name. When we were leaving we saw that there was a Bonnie ice cream, a Bonnie hardware, then we saw a sign that said welcome to Bonnie. So much for being observant!