Day 14? We’ve really only been doing this two weeks?! Huh.
I spent the entire morning writing blogs trying to catch up with my backlog of notes It’s more challenging to write them when they are not fresh in your mind but I think I did OK. We left camp about 1 p.m. and headed into Springfield, Missouri.
The rig had a new squeak. Dave though it might be the springs that hold the new carpet on the retractable steps. When we stopped along the way I discovered we’d left one of the slider windows open. I closed it. No more squeak We’re glad we don’t have to figure out an alternate way of holding the carpet on the steps.
The Rest Haven Court has been in existance in 1947 which means it was built the same year we were born. Now it is advertising free Internet. Glad to see it has also kept up with the times. I thought I had a picture of that sign but, if so, I don’t know where I stored it.
We had planned to go to WalMart next but since we got such a late start we decided to skip it and go on to Steak N Shake for lunch. This place still has the original 1962 architecture. You can still get curb service and the guys still wear paper hats. They had some funny signs inside. One said, “It’s important to study the classics.” Another one defined a milkshake as “milk a-la-mode.”
Next we drove by the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine Mosque. I wonder what today’s Shriners think about being so clearly identified with Islam?
We drove by the Gillioz Theater but there was no place to safely stop to take a picture of it. Then we drove by the Old Calaboose which was built in 1892 but we couldn’t find a place to park since we are too tall a rig to fit into the parking garage next door to it so we only got a picture of the back of it.
The Melinda Motel is a place I would be wiling to stay if we didn’t have our own house with us. I like the individual cabins so you don’t get a lot of neighbor noise.
The only thing worth photographing at Danny’s Service Station is the old sign. Every thing else original is long gone and what’s there now is nothing special. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to stop close enough to get just the sign.
The Yeakley Chapel is out in the country. It has been standing since 1887 and is still an active Methodist Church today. Note the two front doors from a time when men and women were expected to enter and sit separately.
Traveling on down the road we came to this gas station and took a break here to use the restroom. We had to use our own since the building is closed. It must have been a real something once upon a time though. Notice the change in stone where they “fixed” the false front roof. Gas was 31.9 cents but Ethyl didn’t have a price listed.
The writer of the turn-by-turn book sometimes gets poetic. Today he suggested that we somehow revive the relics we are looking at by rebuilding them in our minds. I find that idea amusing in a likable sort of way.
When we entered Carthage, Missouri, we decided we’d better make that WalMart stop to resupply our RV. While there, we decided to try using our freezer so we bought a bunch of frozen dinners to microwave on those days we have electrical hookups. Then we decided it was late enough to just stay at WalMart overnight. So we moved over near other RV’s and semi-trailers and sort of set up camp.
TTYL,
Linda