Over Thanksgiving break, Woodsy was allowed to visit Alisha Krause at her home town of Brighton IL. During this time, Woodsy and Alisha toured both Alton and Grafton IL, a total of 128.39 from Woodsy's home in Wham. While driving along the river road, Woodsy spotted a gigantic bird painted upon a cliff. This strange site made Woodsy want to take a closer look. Upon inspection, Woodsy was able to read the legend of the Piasa Bird and realize it's historical importance.


After reading the legend of the bird, Woodsy found out that not only were the Native Americans of the time scared of the bird and his eating habits, but that the first sighting of the large painting was recorded by Father Jacques Marquette while traveling with Louis Joliet. Now the painting and legend continues to be passed down from generation to generation. In fact, the famous Piasa Bird is the school mascot for Alisha's school in Piasa, IL. After their exciting adventure, Woodsy headed back home, another 128.39 miles, and has now traveled a total of 2519.88 miles!

Woodsy and Shannon

Woodsy and Shannon Sullivan traveled 13 miles from the Wham building out to Crab Orchard Marina. It was a very chilly day so we could not stay long, take a boat out, or go swimming. We still managed to get a photograph. Woodsy has now traveled 2373.1 miles.

Woodsy and Heather

Woodsy and Heather Musgrave traveled back to Jonesboro, Illinois after leaving the Wham building at Carbondale. We then went to the Trail of Tears State Forest in Jonesboro, Illinois. It was a little chilly outside but Woodsy was brave enough to go out. Our round trip travel was 28.54 miles.
Woodsy has now traveled 2360.1 miles. Wow Woodsy!

Today, Woodsy and Jen took a drive out to Mileur Orchard just west of Murphysboro. Woodsy enjoyed riding around in Jen's pocket. Round trip, they traveled 18.8 miles. Now Woodsy has traveled 2,331.56 miles altogether.

Woodsy and Natale

Woodsy and Natalie started out their journey by traveling 13.3 miles to Carterville, IL where Natalie lives. Then, Woodsy and Natalie decided to go visit Natalie's mom at work. They drove 3.5 miles to visited Natalie's mom at the IUOE local 318 apprentice training site (Lat: 37.80439/ Long: -89.025869), where she works as the office manager. IUOE stands for International Union of Operating Engineers. The apprentice site is where they train on heavy equipment. Woodsy got really excite when he saw all the big crains and backhoes. Before Woodsy could go out to see everything he had to learn about safety.

After Woodsy learned about safety he was set to explore the equiptment. Woodsy and Natalie went out to the large backhoe.

After Woodsy looked at everything he and Natalie traveled back to Natalie's house and back to Wham the next day. Woodsy and Natalie traveled a total of 33.6 miles. Woodsy has traveled a total of 2312.76 miles.

Woodsy and Isaac

Hello everyone. My name is Isaac Diaz. Woodsy and I traveled from the Wham building here at SIUC campus to Wrigley Field (Longitude: -87*39'20", Latitude: 41*56'53") in Chicago, Illinois. The total distance, round trip, that Woodsy and I traveled together was 677.46 miles. The overall total mileage that Woodsy traveled is now at 2279.16 miles. Woodsy loved being in Chicago, and like his co-owner, he was sad to leave.