Saturday, April 23, we continued on east from Sikeston, crossing the Mississippi River at it's confluence with the mighty Ohio, at Cairo, Illinois.

This picture of the US 60 bridge, looking back, west from the Illinois side toward the river, does not begin to do justice to this "Father of Waters," especially at the near flood stage and with the Ohio coming together with the Mississippi at this location.

For those of us from the dry deserts of the west this is major water! It seemed we traveled for miles and miles on roads just a few feet above the level of these rivers and the backj water that runs well beyond the normal channels. The farm land which stretches for miles on both sides of the river, already seems saturated with water from the storms now so prevelant in the area.