Blog of the Day
October 4, 2011
Marsha and Dick Marshall - Adventure 12
Today was a travel day and
started off as all travel days normally do: thump thump thump by our thumping
tail gunner. Spence already saved us once with his checks.
The day didn’t start too well for
Jeff and Noreen as one of their levelers would not retract. It looked as if a
whole bunch of helpers were there trying to resolve the problem. A gentleman I
believe was from the campground finally was able to get it to retract but said
that one of the bolts was sheared. It was suggested that Jeff contact a service
center in Iowa that does a super job in restoring troublesome levelers.
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| Fixing the leveler |
Then came the bittersweet part of
the day: Juanita and Ron, owners of Adventure Caravans who had been with us
since Bemidji, would be staying behind
to join the second GRR trip. We’ll sure miss them as they are a barrel of fun.
Hopefully Ron will find something to do with his zippers. For those who don’t
know the story of the zippers feel free to ask us.
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| Juanita and Marsha |
We spent the next few hours
following the Great River Road along the Mississippi River. There probably was
a more direct route but we would not have gotten to see towns such as Boston,
Montpelier, Burlington, Buffalo and other towns with New England and New York
names. It almost made us feel as if we were back north, especially with the
beautiful color on some of the trees.
We stopped in Fort Madison, Mo,
with Lola and Fred (15) to have lunch. It was a lovely park with plenty of room
for our rigs. We made lunch and took it to a picnic table alongside of the
river where we joined a couple already there. They were asking us all kinds of
questions about the caravan and seemed genuinely interested when they are finally
able to retire.
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| Fort Madison Gate |
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| Fort Madison |
After lunch we continued
following the GRR and passed through cornfields, soybean fields that had been
harvested, more cornfields both standing and cut and soybean fields that looked
as if they were a second planting as they were nice and green.
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| Corn |
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| Growing soybeans |
One of the highlights (?) of the
trip was passing two operating casinos: Catfish
Bend Casino and the Terribles as we approached Hannibal. You can’t prove it by
us that there is a recession as both parking lots were full of cars. Guess that
some of those folks figure that they can hit it big and solve some of their
problems. We passed by!!
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| Catfish Ben Casino |
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| Terrible's Casino |
We arrived at the Mark Twain Cave
Campground in Hannibal, MO, and quickly set about getting the rig all set up as
we didn’t want to be late for the 5 o’clock social. Dick’s favorite goody was
Sally’s cream cheese with jalapeno jelly. He was not alone in partaking of
that. Everyone had a nice social hour and then headed off for suppertime.
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