HANNIBAL MISSOURI

Hannibal, MO - another visit to a famous person's boyhood home. This time it is Mark Twain's (aka Samuel Clemmens). A quaint little town on the Mississippi River so we started the day by taking a riverboat ride. Did you all remember that Mark Twain was a river boat captain before he began writing? That was actually how he got the name Mark Twain. He also modeled his characters after boyhood friends. So we got to visit Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer's houses and saw Becky Thatcher's (it is the one being remodeled) and also saw the famous fence that got whitewashed.