The Samboree had 3 nights of entertainment, here's the first nights country music group.  We must be getting old because we didn't go to either of the other nights entertainment.

Here's a shot of the vendor area behind the stage.  All we purchased was a LED reading bulb and a new squeegee.  We spent lots of time with Mike and Debra, Judy made supper for all of us the day  they arrived and Debra made supper the evening before we both left.  We also went out once for Mexican chow but spent lots of time visiting.  We felt that the schedule info supplied was not very accurate or detailed so we missed the drawings we were interested in.  There was LOTS of talking about and awards given to Good Sam chapters but we don't belong to any so this wasn't of any interest to us, neither was the chapter and area organization.  We all attended on seminar about cleaning the outside of your rig.

 

Our first Samboree & Gurberburgers

Today we made the 71 mile trip to Sedalia, MO for a Good Sam Samboree rally.  We have never been to a Good Sam rally and this one was in the right time & place.  We were going to go in next to HH friends Mike & Debra but they had some truck troubles in PA and we don't expect them until Thursday. 
We went out to a late lunch, ludin, at the Wheel Drive Inn.  Very good burgers but we didn't have the guts to try their specialty, the Gurberburger.  It's a hamburger with all the fixins plus peanut butter.  Judy asked for some peanut butter on the side and tried it, she said it was good.  Not my cup tea!

Jesse James Museum & Farm

Today we traveled to Kearney, MO where the James family had their farm and Jesse was born and raised.  The original 1820 farm house is the structure on the left, the taller structure on the right was added on after Jesse James was killer.  The Pinkertons were tipped off that he and his outlaw brother Frank where there visiting their mother and snuck up early (12:30am) and threw a flaming ball into the house which exploded and blew one of his mothers arms off and killed Jesse's young step brother.  To the local loyal southerners The James were heroes and to the Union sympathizers' they were criminals.  The James brothers were not there at the time and were quite upset, 3 months later Frank killed the neighboring farmer, a northern sympathizers, who they suspected tipped off the Pinkertons that the brothers were at their mothers home that night.

After Jesse was shot his mother buried him on the farm so she's be near him and protect the grave site.  A few years later when she was considering selling the farm she had his body moved to the Kearney cemetery.  The above tombstones at the farm are new replacements as souvenir hunters chipped the originals away.

This just one of many displays in the museum next door.  The boots on the bottom left were the ones Jesse wore when he was shot.

 Here's the James family plot in the Kearney cemetery.   He's next to his wife Zerelda.  This also his mothers name, his wife was his first cousin and she was named after her aunt, Jesse's mother.
The last picture is Archie's grave, he was Jesse & Frank's young step brother killed by the Pinkertons fire bomb.