We drove 291 miles on Sunday, but we got off the road about 4:30. After last night's shower, laundry, and dinner at Golden Corral, she played a few hands of solitaire while we watched TV, but we all went to bed fairly early. We did work in about a half-hour of outside time while we waited for the laundry to dry. Joe got the lawn chairs out and set them up right in front of the laundry trailer, and we had a nice breeze. We were all tired by the end of the day, but Lucille probably had her best night's sleep of the trip so far, I think she only woke up once, and that was about 4:00 a.m.
And we all slept in till almost 8:30, when she got up and started "doubling up" her bedding. Guess that meant it was time to get up and on the move. Her mantra has been "on the road again." We de-camped about 9:30 and found a McDonalds. Joe and I went in and got breakfast to go, then we sat on their parking lot and ate.
We thought we would try her riding at the dinette table to give her a break from the front seat, and give her some different pressure points. But she thought she "swayed too much" at the table, so Joe pulled over and we moved her back to the co-pilot's seat. We are seeing a few daffodils and little purple flowers blooming along our route now. It's still pretty windy, hope Missouri is a little calmer. At our next stop, Lucille decided to try out the blue recliner, and that's where she stayed the rest of the day. The first time Joe tried to get her buckled up, he turned the seat and the buckle does not turn with the chair ,so it was getting tight across her belly. She hollered a bit until he readjusted the seat belt. She said it was a comfortable chair, and I think she even dozed off a few times. She hasn't been getting any naps in in the front seat -- she's too busy keeping Joe in line, driving straight, not too fast or not too slow, and keeping him awake.
Joe discovered that a crack had developed from a "star" in the front windshield overnight, but he hopes to wait until we get back in Arizona before he has to deal with that. We had plenty of windshield issues on last year's trip, so I'm sure the insurance company will be thrilled to hear from us again.
We passed a couple more nice casinos with campgrounds just before we crossed the state line in Missouri. But that would have been another hour or so driving yesterday to get over to here, and that was probably too far. We crossed the Missouri state line about 12:20, and made a 45 minute stop on a Lowe's parking lot to have lunch in the RV in Monett, Missouri.
We made it to mid-Missouri today, 280 miles (but 10 miles of that was backtracking because we missed our campground and decided to drive on into town to fuel up). We actually had stayed at this campground a few years ago, when it was 114 in Springfield, Missouri. We were on our way to Branson for the first time during their record-setting heat wave, maybe 2011.
Since I finally got the front seat, I spotted some wildlife -- a wild turkey (along with some roadkill). As we entered one town, there was a one of those yellow "crossing" signs with a horse and buggy picture. So I got my camera ready just in case we saw one. And sure enough, one was coming right alongside the road beside us, but I guess I'm rusty on my camera moves because I missed the picture. I even tried to take a picture of the sign and I missed that too.
We ran into a few sprinkles today, and it was cloudy about all day, still very windy. But once we set up camp, the sun came through so we got to sit outside for a few minutes until it got too cool. We had a light supper, and she played cards for a while, Joe watched TV, and I worked on this blog. We are definitely getting closer!
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