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| Fall colours along the Lewis & Clark Trail |
Thursday (Oct 30th) we awoke to a dark day; rainy
and cold. John opted to do a couple of
loads of laundry as he thought I might find another cat (!) and I made grits
for breakfast. We’re enjoying our
grits! We pulled out of the St. Louis
area about 1:00 pm and drove the Lewis & Clark Trail along the Missouri
River. We paralleled, for a while, the
Katy Trail System, which is a 240 mile bike and foot trail built in the right-of-way
of the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad (MKT for short). “Katey” comes from the pronunciation of the
abbreviated “KT” in “MKT”. It’s really
something to see: a very well-maintained pathway system.
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| The scenery is more rural and agricultural in Missouri |
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| Crossing the Missouri River; LOVED the clouds!! |
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| Hermann, MO |
We stopped for a kitty walk at Hermann, MO and we saw a
couple of gorgeous trees in full autumn colours near the fire station. We continued on and got to Jefferson City, MO
about 5 pm. It’s roughly halfway between
St. Louis and Kansas City. It was very
wet from all the rain and we had to take a pull-through spot as the ground was
very soft and John was afraid we’d get stuck if we were off the pads. The cats were happy to run around on the wet
ground, however. The pond was of
particular interest to both of them.
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| Osage campground near Jefferson City |
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| The kitties checking out the pond... Tawny in foreground |
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| Heavy winds make for gorgeous flag pictures! |
Friday (Oct 31
st) it was very windy! About as bad as the “Blustery Day” we had in
Quebec. The cats were pumped by the
wind, though, and they tore around the campground and chased each other and ran
up trees with their fur blowing every which direction. It was a wild sight! We drove into town and got some groceries, then
pulled out about noon. We stopped for a
cat walk at Lone Jack and saw a very cool water tower painted to look like an
8-ball at Tipton, MO.
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| The largest 8-ball in the world!! (Tipton, MO) |
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| Sam, making sure there's no guns inside (or people). |
We got into the Kansas City area about 5, hitting an early
rush hour due to Halloween. We got the 2nd
last spot in the campground at Merriam (a suburb) and took the cats to a nearby
school for their evening walk-about.
They were very interested in looking into all the windows, and we got a
charge out of the “no guns” stickers on all the doors. We don’t see that in Calgary! We spotted a
red fox in the woods beside the school yard.
We made ourselves a nice pork and roast veggies dinner and
settled in to watch some Halloween specials.
We get a couple of channels here because we’re right in the city, and it
was fun to see episodes of Alfred Hitchcock, Gilligan’s Island, Hogan’s Heroes
(hilarious!) and the Odd Couple. Very
enjoyable evening, even if we didn’t have any kids trick-or-treating. But we did have our "Bottle of Boos"...
Saturday (November 1st) we got the cats over to
the school before 9. There was a hard
frost the night before so the grass was pretty frosty! We took the cats into the woods as the tree
canopy kept the ground from frosting and both cats loved it. No sign of the fox today.
Both John & I had gloves on and heavy jackets. It’s feeling a bit like home around here... We
even had to pull out our 2nd heater in the trailer!! AND we couldn’t hook up the water line as the
temps were too low... this is really roughing it! Hard to believe we had the air conditioner on
less than a week ago.
We headed over to Cousin Kathy & Darrin’s house in
Overland Park for a visit in the afternoon, and we enjoyed our time there. We came back to Merriam to get the cats out
before dark, then met Kathy & Darrin and their family in Olathe, KS for
dinner at their favorite BBQ place – Oklahoma Joe’s (we all agreed it should be
called “Kansas Joe’s”...) The food was great – particularly the pork ribs.
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