Missouri Highlights

When we came into Missouri, we stopped at the first Welcome Center which was not too impressive on the outside but on the inside, there were these two impressive mosaic walls and on the outside were these metal sculptures.



Can you believe that there is a Holt, Missouri. We saw it on the water tower and a road side sign. Holt, Missouri.
We found a Disciples of Christ Church in Montgomery City so we got to worship with Disciples, a really nice bunch of people.
This campground, Lazy Day Campground, has the best looking landscape, flowers and greenery, of any campground that we have been in. Here are a few shots.




The bathroom was a hoot. The lovely ladies decorated the doors. They were also in minature on the front of the cabinets that housed the sinks. Really cute.


Tomorrow we head for southern Missouri for a couple of days and then on to Tennessee. More from your Happy Travelers.

Good times in Iowa

We arrived in Iowa and as usual stopped at the first Welcome Center. This one was a large red barn with restrooms in the lower level and a snack bar, gift shop and brochures upstairs. It is really unique, isn't it.
We took a tour of Iowa's Living History Museum that has farms of the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's, as well as a complete town. This farm of the 1800's made me glad to live now---so much for those good ole days. The work was hard and the people must have been tough to survive.




This was a an example of a farm in the 1900's.




That's my fellow, riding on a John Deere, while we were visiting a museum devoted to farming.
The Village of Walnut Grove is a recreated town of the 1850's complete with a church, drug store, bank, newspaper, general store, lawyer's office, blacksmith shop and a beautiful home with barn.





For my quilting buddies, I was privileged to see a quilt in progress being worked on in the church---lovely, tiny little stitches. There were quilts in the bedrooms, one in a cradle and several in progress, one a lap quilt. Makes me itch to be able to sew again.



After a lovely morning in the Living History Museum, we stopped at this restaurant for an amazing lunch. Our dear waiter, a very attentive young man, gave us a sweet roll that was at least one pound in size. This restaurant is known for its pies and sweetbreads. This was the last one left from this morning's baking and he wanted us to have it. Well, we know what we will be having for breakfast tomorrow.


Tomorrow we head out to Missouri, working our way back east. More later from your very full, very Happy Travelers.

Minnesota Memories

Mall America was something else. We went in through Norstrom's, one of the four stores that anchor the corners of the mall. It is so large that there is an amusement park in the mall so you can ride the rides summer, winter, fall and spring.




After our visit to the Mall, we took a train and went into downtown Minneapolis.
Athens has its bulldogs, Minneapolis has baseball players. They are on street corners and in front of certain special buildings.
Those overpasses connect the buildings so in the winter folks can go from building to building without going outside.


There she was, standing on the corner, just like her TV program....Mary Tyler Moore, throwing her hat in the air with that wonderful smile.
Well folks, we are on to Grimes, Iowa, just outside of Des Moines, Iowa...working our way back east to end up in Myrtle Beach, SC by September 7.....Your Happy Travelers.