From Paducah Friday morning we crossed the windy Mississippi
River twice- west and south over two magnificent high bridges within a half
mile as we crossed into Missouri. The
size of the rivers in the east and the heavy commercial river traffic has
amazed us both. We crossed the state to
Springfield back in the Ozarks and then
retraced roads to Carthage, place of the first western battle of the civil war. Wilson Creek would follow a few weeks
later. There is nothing but a highway
marker at Carthage. The woods thin out and the prairie lays ahead. 350 miles across Missouri.
We stayed at Big Red Barn Campground in Carthage - a
wonderful place Shopcat loved exploring.
Weather was reporting the storm in Denver heading across
Kansas and NE. I thought we should get
as far as we could before the rain hit our area. Mike refuses to have road salt sprayed on the
bus. . It was our only dispute of the
trip. With the weather cloudy nearby
from weather.com we took off from Carthage and spent the afternoon and night at
a rest area with no cell or wifi service.
Luckily the satellite TV worked and cards too In two days we put on 222 miles. We
love the fences and entries into the country homes with their porches, columns
and shutters.
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