Click on the above photo to see slide show.We pretty much had every thing loaded Friday night so that we could be on the road as soon as it was light Saturday morning. When Barb went to pull in the drivers side living room slide, it wouldn't close properly, and on closer inspection, the awning over the slide had frozen the water on it, and it was not rolling up. Next step was to get the ladder and a hair dryer and proceed to melt the ice. By the time we got the slide in, fueled up and a senior coffee at McDonald's, it was almost 10 AM.
When we got down to the Michigan border, we decided to go South on US 421 for about 50 miles and then cut back West to I-57 so that we would not have to deal with the Chicago traffic, even though it was Saturday. We traveled just short of 500 miles and spent Saturday night in a rest area about 25 miles East of Saint Louis, Missouri. We crossed into Central time and also changed to Standard time, so we actually gained 2 hours. That meant we were wide awake a little after 4 am, so we just got up and headed on to Branson.
We stopped for breakfast and coffee at a Flying J truck stop on the West side of Saint Louis. There was this awesome boat in the lot that I had Barb take my picture beside it. I think that she thought I wanted to trade the Motor Coach in on it, but it wouldn't have really suited our needs.
Somewhere before we got to Springfield, a group of three vehicles lost part of their load on the freeway just before we got there, and Barb very hastily advised me that I needed to slow down quickly to avoid hitting all the stuff in the freeway.
We arrived in Branson just before noon and were checked in and set up before 2 PM. Now it is time to relax for a few days and take in a few shows.
Red Lion Man