September 15 – September 20, 2021
Enjoy The Ride Phase II
We left Maryland on September 15th. We traveled west to Morgantown and dropped down onto Route 7, a country road that took us for a roller coaster ride across rural West Virginia. For two days, we drove on the Ohio River Scenic Byway and camped along the water.
Friday the 17th we (Tim) drove on even more harrowing and narrow roads to arrive at Kincaid Lake State Park in Falmouth, Kentucky. Kyle and Allison joined us. On Saturday, my beautiful niece, Megan, married Tristen Knox at Broken Arrow Farm. It was a lovely wedding.
My mom dancing…such a joy to watch!
Sunday the 18th and we said goodbye to Kyle and Allison. We won’t see them until the spring. We began our drive across the country, through Louisville, across the Ohio River, into Indiana, and through Illinois. We stayed the night at a Cracker Barrel in O’Fallon.
Sunset over Cracker Barrel.
Monday morning, we crossed the Mississippi River into Missouri and passed the Saint Louis Arch, the “Gateway to the West”.
All day we traveled on 70W, crossing the Missouri River and continuing on to Kansas City. There we dropped down to 435 to 35. We found a gem in Kansas. We stayed overnight at the Outlet Campground Melvern Lake. This is an ACE or Army Corps of Engineers Park. In our experience these parks are usually on a lake with a dam. The parks are meticulously maintained and beautiful. The best part is for 10.00, with our senior discount, we were able to have a site right on the water’s edge.
Home for the night.
Everytime we have passed through Kansas, we have encountered windy conditions. Last night after dinner we had a couple of hours of 18mph winds with gusts. Kansas is the place where the winds blew Dorothy and her house away! Fortunately, by bedtime, the wind was calm and we slept well.
