Today's Excellent Adventure might have been watching Joe hook up the car, shivering and shaking, and complaining, the whole time while I sat inside the car doing my thing. It was 41, cloudy, misty rainy -- a bit chilly for us thin-blooded Arizona folks.
We knew we didn't have too far to go today, so we weren't in any hurry to get started. We got on the road about 10:35. It was a little windy, but not too bad. We know it can get a lot worse. We hit Kansas City just about noon, coming through on I-35 and except for some road construction, it was a fairly easy drive through town.
We crossed the Missouri River and were out of Kansas! The bridge was rather interesting. The river wasn't flooded, unlike the ones coming up as we head further east. Notice that beautiful sky in the background. We are ready for some sunshine.
Our destination today is Smithville Lake Campground, where acquaintances of ours (and good friends of Collins and Marilyn) are camp hosts here for the summer. Ray and Linda Malloy checked us in, then joined us for dinner and a fun evening. This is a beautiful campground, lots of grass and trees, a huge lake, and camp sites just a few feet from the water. There are over 400 campsites here, but only a handful were in use since the weather has been so crummy. Linda said they see lots of deer here, but so far all we've seen is ducks and geese. There's crappie, bass, catfish and walleye in this lake, so we might have to go find a fishing license. We have our fishing poles and tackle box with us.
We have a list of possibilities of things to see here in Kansas City, so we will spend a few days here. We are hoping for some sunshine, and better weather is forecast for tomorrow. We are running out of long-sleeve shirts and jeans, so we are hoping it will get warmer soon. But not too much warmer.
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