My One Night Stand with Mark Twain

I spent one night in Hannibal Missouri over this week end. While walking around the town I took a lot of pictures and read about Mark Twain and his famous counter parts Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Since our class is reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I really focused my time in Hannibal on that characters journey. The entire trip around took 2 hours when they say small town they mean small town. Since its winter time the Mississippi river ferry, that almost parallels Huck and Jim's adventures on the river, was closed down. But I didn't let that stop me. I traveled to the top of Lovers leap a hill that over looks over all of Hannibal and Jackson's Island. Other than Jackson's island there is nothing that really represents the characters of Huck and Jim. I went to the Huck Finn house which is based off the house that Tom Blankenship lived in. He was the inspiration for Huckleberry Finn. Though the character of Huckleberry Finn never really lived in house. I stayed at the Garth Woodside Mansion, which was the highlight of the entire trip. If you don't believe how lonelily Hannibal is just check out there live footage of down town Hannibal which consists of three blocks.