good morning guys hope you're all doing well let's check in on my new bike make
sure how she's doing I did a lot of driving yesterday it just kind of rained
on us the whole way but I had to catch back up with where I left off south of
Chester Illinois so here I am in Carbondale Illinois to start back up on
the Great River Road although I'm a little discouraged so far open
year-round sunrise to sunset it's Saturday 10 a.m. closed for the
season this would have been a really neat park to go look around and share
with you but I even called the number and they're not answering the phone but
Oh check it out there's dragons in there that's pretty cool and hobbits it looks
like a Dungeons & Dragons themed park especially with the castle over there
look at that that's pretty cool I mean it might just be like a kids playground
park but still I wanted to get in there and get some better video and pictures I
don't know what to tell you at Carbondale hey buddy are you ready to go
nice day huh lots of sunshine for the kitty kitty yeah all right man hop down
and get your seat you can't stay up on the dash the whole time you kitty kitty
kitty kitty man oh ho ho ho got my handbag no you can't keep petting
me oh boy he bites he bites okay man have that handbag well just got here to
Metropolis Illinois so I'm gonna go take a walk around and see what metropolis
Illinois has here so there's some interesting history to Superman's
hometown actually in 1973 they were going to build a theme park
yeah a 50 million dollar theme park that was never built and so instead we get a
statue of Superman there that you can pose next to and across the street
apparently even a Superman museum of sorts we're going to go check it out see
if we can find a magnet see what this town has to offer but this is officially
unofficially Superman's hometown of Metropolis Illinois and it's actually
pretty cool it's worth a stop in here you can pose with your head in a
Superman or superwoman cut out there looking and flying up there off the
building pretty cool it says they're open oh my gosh look in the window
there's a Superman leg lamp guys that is actually pretty cool
anna says there's a museum inside too okay although they removed the telephone
and just put in a cardboard one there at least they they have it there and I
flat-out love the color and most importantly of all they're open Wow the
comics
find out it will go into the museum here look there's another leg limb that's
right guys I'm taking you with me into the Superman Museum it's 5 bucks to get
in that's a really old wood advertisement there the original
Superman Kirk Alyn that's Kirk there
that clerk Kent Wow I'm not actually too familiar with the Superman TV series I
loved the Batman TV series 70s this place is crazy was Superman show some
decency lady check it out Superman pinball and to
Superman arcade games oh hey you don't fit in here dude it's doomsday this is
one monstrous Superman collection look at the wall back up the stairs
here's Lex Luthor's lab equipment mm-hmm
I think part of the reason why I'm more of a Superman fan than Batman is the
color the Reds the Blues the just the the vibrant vibrant colors it's probably
my favorite part look at all the cups and glasses some of these white ones I
believe her from the 70s actually Superman costumes
well
they actually have the original Clark Kents breakaway shirt you know that he
was able to pull really quickly from the telephone booth to be able to turn into
Superman well look at all those Superman wallets and you could potentially spend
hours in this place also I want to touch that's Superman phone I don't know if I
believe that wax sculpture of him maybe even got a little display of Smallville
is that a cat Halloween costume looks like a kitty costume hmm Supergirl
hmm well the museum was cool I checked they
do not sell a single Superman leg lamp here at this gift store Museum they're
all out probably because they're in high demand this time of year oh well I've
gotta check it out for yourself if you're in the metropolis Illinois area
guys that's pretty cool so here's the magnet I went with metropolis homeless
Superman I like it hard to believe that this small little quaint town was almost
home to a 50 million dollar Superman theme park boy things changed possibly
looking for some food in the area too Superman food huh okay so the north end
of town just kind of ends metropolis but there's one more statute we'll look at
see they do have a nice Lois Lane statue here reporting yeah wonder if they even
still have a newspaper in this town probably not cool here's an old picture
of what metropolis may have looked like like early 1900s a little different
I'll just perform a little triple jaywalk here as I finally found a
restaurant 7:18 brew cafe negative not in
Superman's hometown oh wow business is closed due to low sales geez
so Superman's hometown of Metropolis has 14 antique stores 7 workout gyms but
only one restaurant and it's closed because of low sales how in the heck do
all those antique stores stay open and make any money the only food restaurant
doesn't make any money well I'm back to the Superman statue there is a Hardee's
across the street from where I started but I'm actually gonna go south and keep
walking get some exercise enjoy the fresh air and sunshine here even at City
Hall although the the leaves are covering a
lot of it Superman well I smell food I just don't know where it is this much
metropolis no idea why this one's closed possibly the biggest attraction here in
Metropolis is closed for the season it's too sunny it's too warm no nobody would
want to go in there oh well you got to hit these places up in June and July
only getting really weak can't walk anymore I'm not sure what it is let us
take a seat on this nice green bench oh
crap I just sat on kryptonite well I'm not gonna be able to make it
back now no I smell good food I do guess what I finally found a restaurant in
town locally that is open and making profit phat Ed's famous for shrimp I
don't really want to do the shrimp let's go see what they got
this place is crazy busy they got all the business from that other restaurant
that's closed guess what I ordered
really glad I found fat Ed's restaurant there that was a lot of fun good food
good people they're in there watching college football so that was fun let's
go back to the RV and check in on Jax though
all right made it back no tickets on the RV for parking and where is Jax at of
course he's still on the dash showing off dude you mean right
I mean right yeah wrong either but did you see Superman he's right behind you
Superman's over there oh I had a burger sorry you smell it on me sorry man
there's no kitties allowed the museum or the restaurant whoa careful dude careful
man how you doing yeah we're gonna camp today is there a state park nearby I'm
gonna go check it out nor on see if I can find all right how about Superman
right there next to Popeye oh yeah what do you think of those leaves are they
crunchy there's some crunchy leaves huh yeah
right so I should probably admit that I'm a good 30 40 miles away from
Mississippi River the Great River Road that's weak also because of two reasons
one I kind of messed up when I introduced the Great River Road I
actually left out the state of Kentucky forgot to mention it at all
even though it has a really tiny little section of the Great River Road I didn't
even mention it now I wanted to come this far inland obviously to see the
Superman stuff but also this gives me a chance on my next video on Wednesday to
show a little more of Kentucky possibly because I haven't spent a whole lot of
time boondocking in Kentucky also look at this cool state park walk
over a little bridge here no that is not the Mississippi River guys actually I
think on the other side of this state park here in this city is the Ohio River
and that will merge into the Mississippi River after Kentucky yeah that's a
pretty little park so what we'll do is I'll catch you guys on Wednesday and
we'll dip into a new state or to see how it goes
okay so yeah thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed the Superman stuff and
Jax and I will see you back on the road here on Wednesday I guess
you