Summer '22 Cross Country - Day 42

Travel day from Eagleville, Missouri to York, Nebraska

Jul 17, 2022

Saturday, 16 July 2022

Last night we stayed at the Eagle Ridge RV Park in Eagleville, Missouri. I failed to get some campsite photos when we arrived yesterday because it was just too darn hot and humid when I thought about it! So here are some from this morning:

This was the first time this trip that we had to go into a site from the opposite direction, placing the curb side to the hookups. Note that with an Oliver Legacy Elite or Legacy Elite II travel trailer, the sewer output is hidden in a fully enclosed bumper. Very nice!

As I explained in yesterday’s post, we didn’t have to go through Missouri or Kansas, but it was easy to knock them out on our way west.

From Eagleville, we traveled south on I-35 to Hwy 36 at Cameron to head west into Kansas.

I’m guessing they claim ‘Crossroads of the Nation’ because it does appear Cameron, Missouri is located in the middle of the lower 48.

The Missouri River separates Missouri and Kansas.

Kansas on the left to the west. Missouri on the right to the east.

As you drive through Kansas, it’s like going down a cornfield alley!

We stopped in Hiawatha, Kansas at a Walmart to get food and to have lunch. Fortunately, there was a wonderful well-maintained grass lot we parked next to that made for a perfect parking place to walk the dogs.

It also happened to be next to a farm equipment dealer, giving me something fun to look at.

After about an hour spent in Hiawatha, Kansas, we departed for York, Nebraska where we will be staying at the Diamond B Horse Motel.

The travels of Oliver Legacy Elite II Hull #961 so far…

Something we learned today is that there is a whole network of horse motels around the country that cater to folks who travel with their horses. Many large horse trailers include a built-in RV so that the owners have a place to stay when parked. At the horse motel, the horses get a corral and stable to eat, exercise and sleep. We are fortunate that this particular horse motel also caters to RVers like us so that we could be exposed to this wonderful part of life on the road. Thank you Dr. Bryan and Diane Buss for your wonderful hospitality!

This is Romeo, a sweet gelding who was one of our overnight neighbors.

Romeo doing something about those darn flies!

Romeo is very aptly named as he kept coming back to us for more head scratching!

What a wonderful place to spend the night!

Toward the end of today’s journey we received some terrible news that a dear friend and neighbor Judy Rose has been placed into hospice. It is therefore with a heavy heart that we must head back home to Harriman, Tennessee.

As I wrap up this post early Sunday morning July 17, we received word from Wayne Rose that his wife Judy passed at 6 am EDT. We are obviously devastated and glad we made the decision yesterday to head home.

Please pray for our friend and neighbor Wayne Rose as he mourns the loss of his wife of 60 years, Judy Rose.

Frieda shopping with Judy during our visit to their winter home in Acadia, Florida in March of 2021.

I will continue daily posts until we get home, at which time I’ll pause until we resume our trip west in a few weeks.

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