Missouri
Travel Blogs from Missouri, United States
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Well, we're done for the day. It was another good day. We're in the Gasconade Hills rv park. At the moment, it reminds me of the Friday the 13th movies because it's a long way back in the woods. This is a first for both ...
3rd day in Branson
Our 3rd day in Bronson was a little low key after yesterdays 4 shows. We saw a tribute show to Red Skeleton by Tom Millica. I and Susie always liked Red Skeleton so really enjoyed the show.He did the old characters like sanfrando red a ...
a great reason to go to springfield
My old friend Ken Rutherford lives in Springfield Missouri. We have known each other since the Peace Corps, so that makes it about 20 years! His wife Kim is great, and so are their kids: Hayden, Campbell, Duncan, and Lucy. It was so much ...
Eureka, Arcata and the Humboldt Coast
After a hellish travel day on Saturday, where I missed my first flight, arrived in San Fran 7 hours later than originally anticipated, then drove 280 miles north to Eureka in the middle of the night, I slept kind of late on Sunday. I started by ...
Summer school
I am happy to report that I'm finally finished with summer school. I took my last final on Wednesday. Now I'm just praying that I passed that final. It was in algebra, which is not my best subject. I get a whole week off before Fall semester starts. ...
Here we went for the second time to visit the arch
OK, as we said we will come back to St Louis to visit the arch because the first time we came we got here to late and it was closed. So we got there and we went it line, and when it was out turn to purchase the tickets ,guess what? SOLD OUT!!!!! Can you ...
St. Louie I hardly knew ye
Short drive today, only about 4 hours. I noticed the Arch from miles out of the city and it's really impressive. Upon seeing it I knew my trip had actually somewhat began (doesn't really begin until Seattle). I pass downtown St. Louis and notice I still ...
(surprisingly artsy) Springfield MO
So the first hotel I tried was overrun with loud, rude kids running up and down the halls, slamming doors, yelling -- while the "adults" stood and yakked in those same halls! I know, because I opened the door to see what in the heck was going on at ...
'Twas the night before
Rich Text Area.The trip starts tomorrow with a flight to Chicago and then on to Paris. Most everything is taken care of; bags are packed (mostly), the house is cleaned (mostly), and the dog is at the dog sitter’s (completely). Our itinerary is ...
Day In St Louis
27 Oct we were at St Louis Arch and Westward Expansion museum, in the afternoon went to Bass Pro Shop headquarters. The arch is 670 ft tall. Little cars holding 5 people take you to the top. No windows in the cars.. The Bass Pro Shop in Springfield, MO ...
At the Mississippi
Crossed the Mississipi to St. Louis, Missouri. Visited the St. Louis Arch and the Museum of Western Expansion. Thunderstorms that night which meant Motel and a REAL BED. Oh my, a real bed! On Saturday we visited the St. Louis ...
why in the world Peru and Bolivia?!
So...this trip hasn't started yet, but the preparations have...our plane tickets are already purchased and the itinerary is finalized...considering that the trip is still almost 5 months in the future it's unbelievable, but! - ...
Idle in the Ozarks
I've endured my first true winter in five years. I'm back in the Ozarks, idle in my parents attic, plotting the next year of my life. A year in the 'dark continent,' but from everything I have read it seems to be the most luminous place on earth. ...
A museum of Titanic proportions
... to leave me and, more importantly, refused to stay with the shoip any longer. Both mother and father failed to leave the ship in time to save their lives. And her we are to tell the story. ... of our trip to the Titanic Museum in Branson, ...
Truth, justice and a real picket fence.
... yet if you discount the city street in downtown Birmingham. Leaving Illinois, we crossed the Mississippi and stopped in Hannibal Missouri, the home town of Mark Twain. His home, his father's business and Becky Thatcher's house (she was a ...
The End of Our Journey
To everyone who has followed our log, this will be the final entry. The end of our journey has ended in the most tragic possible way. The pain we thought was gall stones turned out to be esophageal cancer. At 1:00 am this morning, Carl passed away. The ...
Kansas City
Our next stop on the family/friends tour of the US was a visit to Jamie's American host family the Phillips'. We kicked off our stay with a fun few days down at their condo at Lake of the Ozarks! We were treated ...
GWT- Flora, Fauna, & Interesting People
... so worth it. The trail before the rain was the best, not only the petroglyph's but the largest Burr Oak in the state of Missouri. How big is it? It would take, at least, four people fingertips to fingertips to circle the tree, ...
The Journey Home! - KC
The largest blessing out of our exhausting day was seeing my wife's face waiting for me outside the gate in KC. It was like watching my first sunset and firework's show all together at the same time. As I hugged her, the joy of being home ...
A sleep over.
Thanks to Mary and Daniel I have a place to crash for the night. Got here earlier than expexted. Made some good time coming across the 70 through Kansas. Spoke to a Kansas State Trooper at the Starbucks this morning whoi said they got more ...
Finally - Kansas City
... city with great drinks, and BBQ and took full advantage. Our trip took us through the entire state of Missouri, including a nice lunch stop in Jefferson City (the state capital). We had some thin crust pizza right across the street ...
Visiting Missouri
In Missouri we stoped to see a few things...first to see our friends, and while we were here we got to go to a few places: the Zoo and the Fantastic Caverns...it's been great. The Cavern are beautiful, and big and we took a few nice pictures.Check them ...
Christmas and New Year
I left Kinloch on 19th and had a stopover in Queenstown. I had been looking forward to doing the Shotover Jet boat ride, but unfortunately, they were doing maintenance work and there were no trips running. Hmm - have to chill out instead - now there's ...
Moving along the Mississippi
... . After covering about 76 miles we pulled in around 2pm to the famous “marina” Hoppies at Kimmswick, Missouri. Established in 1934, this place is an institution and is the last marina for 228 miles. Yesterday, Wed Oct ...
Humboldt Coast and Redwood Country
Tuesday was my day to explore the giant redwoods. Not a whole lot of photos, because photos (mine anyway) can't do the trees ...
Passage à Bridgeton...
... pour "visiter" Saint-Louis ce qui s'est résumé à voir son arche sans prendre de photo parce qu'on avait pas l'appareil et à la dégustation d'une excellente "frozen custard" sorte de glace à l'italienne en plus ...
Home at Last
The actual flight home was uneventful was a far cry from the excitement I used to get from flying. It was nice to finally be able to plug my headphones in and listen to the pilots talk on the radio. When I arrived at the airport I was a little surprised ...
The complete album of our trip to Ukraine
Here are some pictures of our trip to Ukraine. Enjoy! I will try to add more later. I took over 500 pictures ...
Our Travel Philosophy
well, back to our travel philosophy... we are active and adventurous... we make plans, but we are flexible enough to change or abandon them if something picks our interest along the way... we don't self-impose the obligation to do and see as much as ...
