Tuesday, 30 August
Today we spent most of the day traveling across Missouri on our way to Tennessee. Along the way, we occasionally check oue GPS for off-beat attractions along our route. Today we found an old train station in Sedalia, MO that is now being used as a museum and gallery for public art. This is an example of one of the pieces on display.
Sedalia is also the home of Jazz legend, Scott Joplin.
Before leaving Sedalia, I picked up a free map because I did not like the route that my GPS was calculating for the trip... it had us going clear through Illinois and into Indiana before dropping down into Tennessee through Kentucky???? I have the Highways avoided on the GPS so we can stay on the back roads most of the trip... but this route was just wrong!
I picked a couple landmark cities that forced the GPS to take us diagonally down across MO...
This took us past Lake Ozark (huge lake)...
We drove down to the lake edge and found this marina that is actually carved into the face of the sandstone cliff...
and finally, we drove out of the grasslands and into the start of the beautiful hardwood forests, (this road happens to be in the Mark Twain National Forest).
It rained today for most of our ride... high 90's and rain... does it get any better?
Spending the night in Poplar Bluff.
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