Adventures including a visit to, drive thru and/or stay in Missouri
Our 3rd Springfield (only camped, didn’t really visit this one) The most populated city in the US named Springfield and on Route 66. The other two we’ve visited are just a bit smaller…in Massachusetts, the “City of Firsts” where many innovations were developed (e.g. first American dictionary & first American Read more…
Leaving the Great River Road for Route 66 We got some chores done (i.e. 115K mile oil change for The Beast) and… Visited 1 new National Park Site and 1 revisit : Heading SW along Route 66 today For more pictures, see (in-work) Adventure Album: Great River Road / Route Read more…
Staying at Mark Twain Cave Campground We just spent the last 2 days being “very touristy” for us…the most since our day in Tombstone in early 2023. We took/visited the Historic Hannibal Trolley Tour, the Mark Twain Riverboat Tour, the Mark Twain Cave Tour, the Mark Twain Boyhood Home Museum Read more…
Three stops in a week…Missouri-Kansas-Missouri We moved Northeast from central Oklahoma to central Missouri over the last week, taking a bit of a Zig-Zag route (including ), with 3 stops: Joplin, MO for 2 nights, Lawrence, KS (between Topeka & Kansas City) for 3 nights, and Columbia, MO (north of Read more…
Road Trip Album at: November 23–December 13, 2016 Overview The primary goal of our Cross-Country Road Trip was to drive the Prius home to Washington to leave her there, making this our last X-Country Trip in the Prius. We had decided that 2017 would be the year to buy a Read more…