Back to Cahokia Mounds

Driving downtown, every so often, I just blow off the last exit in Missouri and keep going across the river, towards Horseshoe Lake and Cahokia Mounds.  The area just beats with history, what for America is old history.  A lake made out of one the bends that the Mississippi abandoned ages ago.  Humans living in the area for 10,000 years.  At the mounds, the site of what was once, long before Columbus, the largest city in North America.

I keep looking for simplicity (and still mistrust it).  Here at Monks' Mound, for some reason, I find it and sign on.