Washington, MO (Wednesday)

Today was a travel day, so we de-camped, said our goodbyes to our camp hosts and guides (Ray and Linda), and headed out.  We hit the road just before 10:00, it was sprinkling a little but was fairly warm (58).  Ray and Linda were heading into one of the small towns today, so they "led" us out to find our route (even with our written directions from them, I doubt that we could have found the right roads).  We found our way over to 291 at Liberty, then we brought that down to US 24, we went east on that to Marshall, then we headed south to Sedalia on 65. We picked up US 50 there, and took that east to Jefferson City, then took 94 over to 47 into Washington (we are now in Daniel Boone territory).  It was a pretty drive, and took us through the bottomland along the Missouri River -- in fact, we crossed it a couple more times.

Not many photo ops today, but one thing that caught our eye was a water tower in Tipton, painted like an 8-ball.  At one time a pool table company was located here.  After it moved out, the water tower was repainted but the residents were all so upset that it was repainted back to the 8-ball.

We saw a little of Missouri's capital city, Jefferson City.  I took one photo of what I assume was the Capital Building, but we didn't get very close to it.

The roads were really good until Jefferson City, but Hwy 94 was really crooked, hilly, and narrow with no shoulder most of the time.  But the countryside was very pretty, very green.

As we get closer to St. Louis, the Missouri River is getting wider.  We crossed it again just before we reached Washington, where we are staying overnight on the Walmart parking lot again.

We passed a sign pointing to Daniel Boone Monument just outside of town so that will be our first destination tomorrow.  Today we drove 264 miles and Joe was ready to get out from behind the wheel.  We paid $3.479 for gas today but we hear that it is going up, and we know Illinois and Indiana are always higher priced than anyone else, so it's going to get more expensive.