http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Missouri en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:16:40 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:16:40 +0000 So we decided one more stop was needed. Looked at the map and decided Stockton State Park in Missouri might be a good place to check out.Heading out ... it was like.... RAININGStockton is a nice lake. In addition to us there were three other campers that decided to camp out. We took a short hike to the marina and around the lake. We headed home around noon and we are home now.Our trip in Oct http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/blog-449803.html MMark postingHope everyone had a Happy Halloween I started this blog on Saturday morning but it is now Monday and we are on the road to Denver. Liz is driving the first segment through KC tp I70 that will take us through Kansas and all the way to Denver. Before I recap our week at the lake Irsquod like to take a moment to point out a couple of National Lampoon moments from the past 24 hour http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Lake-of-the-Ozarks/blog-449752.html Mark postingIt's a beautiful day at the Icenogle Lakeside Villa where Liz and I are regrouping before the rest of our trip commences. We will spend the week organizing our belongings carving pumpkins attending a Camdenton High School football game Liz is beside herself that any high school game be played on Saturday morningafternoon as Xaverian often does and even constructing a headboard f http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Lake-of-the-Ozarks/blog-448977.html Oct. 26 2009.Trying to add more photos than just one at a time. Anyway we're in America. Marie is in her jammies and I am grateful to everyone who is reading this.Please be patient for more photos. I'm doing my best. But damn it's good to be home.Peace and Love. See y'all later.I Love You Rachel. Over and out. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Kansas-City/blog-448499.html One of the best places to watch Fall splendor is a drive on the Great River Road hugging the Mississippi starting from Alton all the way till Pere Marquette State Park. The drive is really exceptional if it happens to be a Peak Fall color weekend as was this last week end. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-448487.html The winding rivers of Missouri call out to the paddlers while the rugged Ozarks trail awaits hikers and bikers. There are a lot of city escape adventures in Missouri that call for an RV Vacation. While in Missouri you might be interested for a camping vacation at Peculiar Park Place RV Park in Peculiar.Have you chosen your USA motorhome Missouri conveniently located in the Kansas City area sit http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Kansas-City/blog-447130.html I honestly wondered as we set out on this journey if Route 66 would live up to her expectations. I had my suspicions that it would but of course I enjoy history research and exploration all of the key ingredients for a mother road traveler. If an antique suspension bridge does not do anything for your curiosity then go to Disney Land. It takes a deep appreciation for things of the past to fin http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Springfield/blog-445364.html Now as you're reading these entries don't think that a trip down Route 66 is all play and no work. It's draining at times mentally emotionally and physically. When we headed out of St. Louis this morning I had little more than four and a half hours worth of sleep. When you've been driving all day and you try running off of that kind of recharge you're in for a crash... well not a car crash http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Springfield/blog-445104.html A blue heron stands at the edge of the water silently hungry. A small breeze makes the water sparkle with the waves in the sunlight. The heron does not move not even a little bit. The bird stands there like a doomed statue waiting for the right moment.I stand in a boat. The sun is piercing hot and the small breeze is doing little to help alleviate the stillness of the blaze. Even the water lo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/blog-445085.html The rush of life often leaves me wondering Why is it that I fill my schedule up to the brim Why do I stay too busy to enjoy this wonderful creation Words cannot convey the much needed serenity you experience while traveling down Route 66. For me it's the ultimate disconnect from the rest of the world. The moment we pulled onto the Mother Road just outside of the Chicago hustle I was insta http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-444854.html Our day started out with the sun shining the birds singing and no traffic tie ups Whoa wait.... that was all a dream I had the night before we left on our trip.The real story... we left on our trip in the dark and the rain was pouring down.Joe needed help getting the RV out of the our driveway so I volunteered to help. I needed my raincoat and cell phone. I couldnrsquot find my raincoa http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/blog-443640.html Before we began to pack up our home in St. Louis. I had one place I needed to cross off my list of Must do before I move list. So my friend Helena and I drove south from STL to Johnson's ShutIn state park. It was a perfect day or as perfect as a day can be for me. I was with a friend the sun was shining and I was walking in a beautiful place. Plus Helena bought lunch which again for me http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-441546.html So today was finally an easy day...the drive atleast. It still sounds like there is a bucket of bolts in the engine but I really do not care. I have been fighting a head cold for a few days at it appears to have the best of me. I am just exhausted. I have managed to avoid all the weight stations in prior states...they were either closed or for trucks over 26000 gross. Actually I did pass thr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Kansas-City/blog-440328.html My wife and I will be off to New Zealand in February and are busy planning what we hope will be the best trip ever. We will be blogging our way across the counrty and will be testing this site on occasion to make sure we know what we are doing. We hope to stay in contact with friends and family throghout our trip and thought this would be a great way to do it. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Kansas-City/blog-439190.html Well st. louis is technically in missouri as well as Illinois anyhow... We had no luck finding work there and kept running into snags with people and police plus I lost my I.D one drunkin night so we decided it was time to go home. We start walking towards the most obvious eastern highway to hike when some dude stops and asks us where we are headed. We told him east and he told us to hop in he http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-436316.html JOhnny had told some of his friends that we were coming down so we had a place to crash.. it was all fun best dumpster dive town ever... mountains of fresh packaged scores. Yet nooo work what so ever this was bad. So after three days in carbondale we decided to pack up and start hitching north for St. Louis. After three hours of walking we got picked up by a dad and his daughter.. we hoped in http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-435541.html TGAIO Thank Goodness August is OverAugust has been a busy travel month. It started with Caribana FestivalParade in Toronto Canada then the Iowa State Fair WW II Honor Flights and ending the month with the American Idol concert in Kansas City. More later on the State Fair and Honor Flights. Some background I must confess that Irsquom a TV junkie with news and reality competing for my atte http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Kansas-City/blog-433397.html Day 7I started out fairly early eager to get back to the River Route. In short order I was in Missouri and had to stop for gas and well a nosh. Not the best of the trip but it worked. I grabbed a map and tracked out my route for the day. I zipped down highway 61. Canton was my gas and doedoe stop. I paid homage and tossed two doughnuts in the trashhellip after they hit the ground. I saved the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/blog-433132.html The bus journey to St Louis has some good and bad sides. The good side is meeting Stefan who I have coffee with at the station before he heads on to Kansas City. The bad side is not getting a whole lot of sleep due to snoring copassengers and the unfriendly Greyhound woman who will not keep my backpack until the evening bus leaves hence forcing me to either walk around hot St. Louis with my back http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-432885.html Cape Girardeau where we stayed last night is the largest city between Memphis TN and St Louis Missouri along the River. It has evolved from a tiny trading post to a frontier settlement governed by a FrenchCanadian commandant to a thriving culturallyrich community of 37000 residents on the worldrsquos only inland cape. A teaching university was founded in Cape Girardeau that is now Southeast http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-432260.html