Hello from Branson, MO
Drafted Tuesday evening, October 7, 2014 (First post of this travelogue)
Posted Thursday morning 10/9/14
We are at an Eagle Bus rally at the Branson Lakeside RV Park
(map)
We left Evergreen on Sunday 9/28 about 9:30 so that we could
get to Goodland, Kansas in time to watch the races. We stayed at the Walmart that we have stopped
at several times in the past. On Monday
we drove to El Dorado, KS and again stayed at the Walmart.
From El Dorado, it was a short 150 mile drive to Nevada, MO
where we stayed at…… Walmart. We arrived
early enough to do quite a bit of genealogy/grave decorating. This is the area where Pat’s grandfather was
raised and there are quite a few of his relatives buried in various cemeteries. We made a large loop up through Butler and
down to a cemetery in Virgil City. That “loop”
is about 200 miles.
On Wednesday we drove about 150 miles to Branson. On the way, we had an issue with the tow
dolly and had to unload the car and drive it the last 35 miles or so.
The Eagle rally was well attended. I think the count was 21 Eagle buses and an
assortment of other types of buses and motor homes (maybe 30 units total).
This post is getting old, so I will end it here and update
the events in Branson in a couple of days.