Thursday October 4 Columbia, MO

A travel day. We went about 240 miles to Cottonwoods RV CG, a very nice park. Very well maintained with paved streets, grass, cement patios, and inexpensice laundry facilities. $1.25 to wash or dry. We met another couple (Ron & Linda) from Climax, MI and had a good chat with them, they are also on their way to Sedilia for the hitchHiker rally. We counted about 6 HH's in the CG. Bonners in Frankenmouth, MI must be very well known, we saw a large billboard here in MO advertizing for their Christmas store. I found the one problem with Cottonwoods CG.....they have small trees, bushes and bolders in each campsite. It was a little tight pulling out but we made it OK.

Wednesday October 3 Sikeston, MO

We stayed put today and washed the trailer and truck. It was hot and sunny, Judy worked more that I did. About 4 we cleaned up and went to Lambert's Throwed Rolls for lunch/supper. They get their name by throwing fresh hot rolls across the restaurant if you want a roll. They also come around with free fried okra, potatoes & onions, macaroni & tomatoes, black beans, etc. They also give you too much food. After that it was grocery shopping and back home. Tomorrow it's back on the road to Sedalia.

Tuesday October 2, 2007 Sikeston, MO

Another good travel day, we were up at 7:30 and casually prepared to leave pulling out at 10am. We stopped at a Flying J truck stop on I24 for lunch and a break. We both had the soup and salad bar, topped off the fuel tanks ($2.88/gal) and even started our Christmas shopping. Imagine, Christmas shopping at a truck stop! We also saw something new, a soybean field on fire. Lots of smoke coming from the large field was drifting across the expressway. We arrived here at 4pm and weren't near as tired as we were yesterday when we stopped. We crossed the Mississippi again, this is about 17 times since April....OK, twelve times while we were stayed in Natchez and crossed daily for sightseeing. I just checked the weather radar and we are expecting some thunder storms tonight, it's still 80 outside and almost dark (6:40 CST). We will be here 2 days and plan to wash the truck and trailer one day. We'll check to see what local history needs exploring too.

Monday October 1 Lebanon, TN

This morning we prepared the trailer for travel and then had breakfast with Margaret before we left, she drove to our campsite and took us out to eat. We left Cummings at 10am and arrived in Lebanon about 1:30 central time. We have no idea when we'll be on Eastern Standard time again so we adjusted all our clocks. We traveled 224 miles today and are 30 miles east of Nashville in a cheap Passport America CG, $11.50 for the night. The guy next to us has his table saw out and making some bookshelves for his trailer.
We are on our way to Sedalia, MO for a HitchHiker Rally starting Monday. We want to arrive Friday, the first day attendees can check in, so we can seek out some of our RV friends,