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Left Nashville at 7am with 328 miles of charge.
Was a lovely drive through Tennessee, through Clarkesville. We sang the Monkees song “The Last Train to Clarkesville”. I wondered if that was Glen Campbell playing guitar on that Wrecking Crew recording.
This was a three-state day. We crossed the State Line from Tennessee into Illinois and onto St. Louis, Missouri. Once the home of Tina Turner, the KKK and alcohol prohibitionist Christians.
Here are some car pictures from Illinois. We passed The Big Muddy River Correctional Center. A medium-security state prison for men located in Ina, Jefferson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The facility was first opened in 1993, and has a working capacity of 1958. It is notable for being the only state prison in Illinois to have a SDP (Sexually Dangerous Person) treatment program. How do they treat sexually dangerous people we wondered.
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