Monday, 26 November. Well, we said “Goodbye” to Branson, MO, early
this morning. We had one terrific time
on our first trip to this jewel of a small show town in the Missouri Ozarks. If you haven’t kept count via the blog
entries, we ended up seeing seven shows during our week here. Not bad for our first time around the
block! And we definitely plan on coming
back – maybe in a couple years.
We left our wonderful ABC campground a little before 9am
under cloudy skies. Our drive up MO SR
65 was uneventful and we picked up MO SR 60 just outside of Springfield. While SR
60 is not an interstate it is four-lane divided highway with some cross-traffic
and the occasional stoplight in a few towns.
We skirted the Mark Twain National Forest off-and-on for a good portion
of the day.
The Mark Twain National Forest area in the "Show Me State"
Traffic was light with very few big semi-trailers – and that’s
good. The day remained overcast and the
10% chance of rain held off until we were just about an hour outside our
destination for the night, Charleston, MO.
And then it started raining. And
it rained and rained – actually poured down in buckets in spots along SR 60 –
and it is, in fact, still raining while I sit here editing this draft blog
entry. It’s gonna be a pretty cold and
rainy night tonight, and if it gets much colder, this rain just might turn into
snow or sleet. We’re keeping our fingers
crossed that we just have rain overnight.
We did finally manage to pick up an actual interstate, I-57, just west
of Charleston, so the last few miles, while still traveling in driving rain,
was a wee bit little easier.
Tomorrow we’ll cross the mighty Mississippi (again) via I-57
(headed east this time), eventually picking up I-24 and head southeast toward
Nashville. At Nashville we’ll pick up I-40
and stay on that as we make our way back to the East Coast to spend the
Christmas and New Year’s holidays with our two sons and their families in WV
and MD. We’re keeping our fingers
crossed the weather will stay “RV-friendly” for us as we travel I-40 thru
Tennessee and head for the I-81 corridor that will take us up thru the spine of
Virginia. We have two more stops after
tonight – one about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville, and one in Salem,
VA – before we will finally reach family in WV.
We’ll be staying initially at the Lost River Campground in Lost River,
WV, just minutes away from our oldest son, Kip, his wife, Tina, and our two
granddaughters, Skye and Rayne. Oh, and
of course, the doggie menagerie of Chewy, Yogi, Rocky, and Sarah, as well as a
few assorted cats, and last but not least, Skye’s new guinea pig, Sugar. And we’re eagerly looking forward to seeing
each and every one of them! Ciao for
now!
Our grandkids: Skye, Ben, Rayne, and little Luke
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