Monday, August 27, 2018

St. Joseph, MO - left our Campsite in Eureka, MO at 9:30am and 88 degrees. We headed northwest to Kansas City, MO to camp at St. Joseph, MO.  Today is our oldest granddaughter's 8th birthday (Emma Texer, Zeeland, MI). She and her younger sister, Kayla, went to 2nd grade and Kindergarten. Cheryl started teaching her 6th year of 3rd grade today at Shoreline Christian School in Shoreline, WA and Zeke in Rutland, VT goes to pre-school next week and Adelaide (Oak Park, IL) and Josie (Zeeland, MI) start pre-school in September. Life moves on.

Our days/weeks are getting somewhat routine where we travel, visit L&C sites, learn and then set up at a convenient  campground where we plan the next few day's travel and visits. Driving west and north west on MO Rt 70 we stopped at Daniel Boone Burial and Monument in Marthasville, MO. He lived here with his son and family for the last 20 years of his life. After he died, he was buried in an unmarked grave and years later, friends and family from Frankfort, KY claimed to haves dug him up and reburied him there.  BOTH sites now claim the burial site.  

The entire trip was VERY windy (18-22 mph steady wind) and HHH 92-95 the entire trip. We drove by Arrow Rock, MO where George Caleb Bingham lived while painting scenes from the West, shortly after Lewis and Clark. Drove around Kansas City, MO, now through the "Great Plains" with rolling hills full of soy and corn fields.  We observed since leaving St. Louis that there are many towns and streets named after BooneXXXsomething and LewisXXXsomething or ClarkXXXsomething.  Arrived at AOK Campground in St. Joseph, MO at 3:00pm and set up in 20 minutes. 

Tomorrow we plan to visit Omaha, NE and Council Bluffs, IA to do some "drive by" visits to Lewis and Clark sites on the Missouri: Missouri River Basin and Western Historic Trails. We plan to camp outside of Sioux City, IA to to visit Sergeant Floyd's Monument, the only fatality of the Corps.

Grave Plaque reads, "Daniel Boone, born in Philadelphia
County (Later Berks County) October 22, 1734, (Modern
September 2, 1734), Died in St. Charles County, MO
September 26, 1820, and WIFE Rebecca Bryan, Born
January 9, 1739, Died March 18, 1813, Removed to
Frankfort, KY, 1845"