July 22-24 More Kansas

On Tuesday we took a trip to Jamesport a nice area of Missouri about 90 miles from our friends home.  An old time small town greeted us with many antique and old time stores. After shopping for awhile we went to lunch at the Country Cupboard.  The place was 'homey' and the food was wonderful.  It also came in large quantities.  We ate so much it took care of both lunch and dinner for all of us.  While there we discovered I'd left my cell phone somewhere - so we backtracked and fortunately we found it (at the City Hall where we'd used the only bathrooms available to the public).  Frustrating but turned out ok.  From there we found a lovely Amish gift/craft store....filled was beautiful handmade furniture, quilts, crochet doilies, and other homemade items, we spent a good amount of time and money there.  What fun and interesting items we found.  I wanted another quilt but restrained myself, mainly because of cost.  I could have furnished our entire condo with all their furniture, I'm a big lover of Amish and their skills.

Driving Jamesport

Wednesday - Howard and Larry went to the World War 1 Museum in Kansas City, Missouri while Charlotte and I did laundry and other catch up items. When we met up about 2pm we were off to Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue....if you want the best barbecue brisket in the entire world you've got to go to this place.  So much food and soooo good.

Oak Ridge Furniture/Sherwood Quilts

Thursday - we were packed and on the road by 9am.  We are heading home much earlier than planned.  We've been on the road exactly 2 months tomorrow, we had planned on a minimum of 3 months...but things went much faster than expected, obviously. Tonight we are in Dalhart, Texas at a Best Western. We hope to get to Albuquerque, NM tomorrow where we understand they have one of the best KOA's....got this information from 2 different people (who do not know each other). Will give report after we've stayed there. Then we may stay in Flagstaff, AZ after leaving there and do some touristy stuff.  We haven't visited Flagstaff in over 15 years and it's not that far from us.  We REALLY do not want to go home to the hot August weather - today it was 116 in Phoenix.