Daily Mileage=418; Trip Total=10,810Today we drove from Sioux City through parts of Iowa and Kansas to get to the middle of Missouri. And, tonight's blog title says it all. Corn, Corn, Corn!!! It's not as high as an elephant's eye yet, but it's getting there. Here is a picture of Rich "outstanding in his field" in which the corn is about up to his shoulders. (Sorry for the poor quality. I'm having some problems getting focused photos.)
Again, the corn fields are nice to look at but they're everywhere. We drove into Kansas City which is like Sioux City in that you can be in Kansas or Missouri. The Kansas City that everyone likes and wants to go to because of the "crazy little women there.." is in Missouri. It's a city and we took a skyline shot as we drove through. We had thought about staying there and getting a steak or ribs but after being in the "real" west, and having buffalo, beef and elk, we decided to pass on it and get closer to St. Louis.
We are listening to the Lewis and Clark Journey. We've been interested in hearing more about it since we've been traveling on much of their route, although much faster (it took them 2 years to go from STL, Missouri to the Pacific Coast & back) and much easier (no riding rapids and fighting Indians for us). They have commemorative signs everywhere and it's sort of like "George Washington slept here" well, Lewis and Clark appeared to be everywhere too! Seriously, the book is written in regular English by a professor who took the diaries and made them readable. It's long (not 2 years worth) but interesting! Here's a sculpture of them with that great dog, Seaman (who was stolen by some Indians because they never saw such an animal before and Lewis & Clark went after him and got him back. Having had the best dog in the world, we would have done the same thing!!)
That's it for tonight. Love & Joy, Mare&Rich
PS Tommy, I have found some of those midwestern beers with names I can't remember or pronounce. But now we're in Missouri heading for St. Louis and I think the local beer here will be Budweiser!!
4 comments:
I think you guys are off the map at the top of the page. We need Part 3B up there! See you guys soon.
Love,
Brian
HI,
You're right but my map person isn't up to date with the blog. I'll have to ask him to change it.
See you Wednesday in Atlanta.
Love,
Aunt Mare
Can't belive you paased up haveing Kansas City style ribs in K.C. no less . Dave.
Yes, we did pass up the ribs but we've had ribs everywhere including Rich's which are pretty good and Rich says he likes Memphis ribs better anyway!
Love,
Mare
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