It's a new month and we are still on this wonderful excursion. We left the KOA campground in Stanton, Mo. at noon, the temp was 69 degrees, and it was raining. 75 minutes later we passed through St. Louis and the rain was really coming down. Our plan was to tour the Gateway Arch and have dinner on a riverboat on the Mississippi River in downtown St. Louis.
We scrubbed those plans after I told Sharon we could have dinner on a showboat in Nashville which would be much more enjoyable. I think she was very happy that we didn't do the Gateway Arch since she doesn't do heights very well. She may have done a rain dance to help me make up my mind! (haha)
We drove across Missouri into Illinois and the rain was still coming down. We pulled into a Rest Area and decided to wait it out while taking a short nap. If you haven't tried taking a nap while it is pouring down the rain, you need to do it. It is so relaxing - we slept about an hour and the rain had stopped.
On the road again, we stopped in Evansville, Indiana for dinner. YEP! You guess it! The choice was the Cracker Barrel, chicken & dumplings, country fried steak & gravy with corn bread and beans. Doesn't get any better than this!
When we left the restaurant, I fired up the laptop in the parking lot and decided to check on a tour of the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green for Monday, Aug. 3rd and then a short visit to the Museum. MORE BAD LUCK! The tours at the plant were discontinued for three weeks starting (You guess it) August 3rd!
Okay we decided to tour the Museum during the morning and do the Riverboat in Nashville that evening so I made the reservations.
We left the Cracker Barrel parking lot and drove to Bowling Green, Ky. where we spent the night at the Wal-mart Campground (parking lot). This time we made sure we didn't park where any semis could park.
Busy day tomorrow, it's late and we went to bed as soon as we could get settled.
Enjoy the few pictures taken (because of the rain).
It was raining so hard on the way to St. Louis, the wipers could barely keep up.
Sharon did her best to get a picture of the Gateway Arch between wiper strokes.
She shot this nice picture of the Mississippi out the side window as we drove across the bridge.
The rain had stopped in Illinois after we left the Rest Area. It didn't matter which way you looked the land was pretty flat along the I64 corridor.
I couldn't resist this sign from the window at the Cracker Barrel restaurant. I'm having country fried steak & gravy here and they are tempting me with cheeseburgers in paradise.
That's the update for this day in history. Not too eventful today, but there is always something special waiting for you when your plans don't always work out.
Until then.................HAPPY TRAILS!
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