Today was our travel day and we came up the Expressway from El Dorado, KS to Emporia and then took I-35 into Kansas City. We went 435 west around Kansas City and that was a breeze. We usually go 435 east to go to St. Louis and there is much more traffic on that. We aren't going to St. Louis this trip, but we plan to do that in the fall. We arrived at Maysville, MO and will spend two nights here. We will cache tomorrow. We are at the Pony Express RV park and it is quaint and has a hiking trail, which we did when we got in. It has a pen with small animals, so we can see that this is a summer draw for families. They also have a small restaurant connected to the office and I guess their pizza is really good. We're eating in again tonight. We saw a car pass us today and some young gal was driving and her license plate said, HIKE GC so she hikes and geo-caches. A gal after my own heart! We have no television reception here so I shouldn't have complained when we could only get ABC in Lawton, OK and ABC and NBC in El Dorado! We will survive. We do have good internet service here, though. Non-eventful day!
Hummm, wondering why the blog was so late on getting published, other than our Geo-caching site was very slow yesterday, also. We checked to make sure the counties we cached in, were on our map for the challenge cache and they weren't yet, as of today. So, we covered for that today, and went west toward Wichita thirty miles to a cache titled, 'I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream'. Of course we were thinking we would get an ice cream treat when we got there. Well, the joke was on us. It was out on the fringe of the city and they are laying some big sewer pipes, so progress is being made. There was nothing at the cache site but a hollowed out tree trunk and a hidden ammo can in there! At least we got our letterbox cache that we drove all that ways for, but no ice cream. Back to El Dorado to go east thirty miles to get Greenwood County. We hadn't planned to go to Eureka, but the caches that were just inside the Green...
Thanks for the update! Glad to hear it was uneventful! 🌷💖
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update! Glad to hear it was uneventful! 🌷💖
ReplyDeleteYou are in our stomping ground. Our daughter is in Lansing, KS, son-in-law at Ft Leavenworth, not the prison, just the Post. My sister started her working career in Stanberry, MO and I think Gary told you, 75 miles from my high school.
ReplyDeleteIf you go through Des Moines, there are great campgrounds on Saylorville Lake, run by the Corp of Engineers. We worked there one summer at a day use area called Walnut Ridge. Still have friends working at one of the campgrounds. Enjoy!
HI Gary and Eloise, yes, we have stayed at Saylorville and it is a huge and beautiful park. We visited our friend, Jo Muir in Rippey, Iowa from there. You might remember them from being in the Buttes. We hiked with Gene, and Jo quilted with me. Great memories. We see there is a wonderful bike trail between Saylorville and Rippey and we always think we will have to go back. We are partial to the corps of engineer parks, as they are so spacious, clean and beautiful, and always around water! That's a given!
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