Day 56 - Carthage, Missouri

Today's route plan was to be a direct shot of about 300 miles.  

Kathy had a different plan so we didn't do that.  In order to hit more quilt shops, we needed to add a couple hours to the trip.  I won't even guess how many extra miles, but it was a few.  The good news is that we bypassed most of Oklahoma City and Tulsa altogether and avoided all the toll roads.

Driving across Oklahoma looked much like driving across Michigan.  Even the clouds looked like home.

When I checked into the RV park yesterday afternoon, I asked about tornado shelters since we heard severe weather was predicted.  The woman that checked us in said not to worry about that, they don't get tornadoes this time of year and even indicated May 6th as THE day for Oklahoma tornadoes.  Well...guess what?  We watched a couple hours of weather coverage after dark where they were tracking a tornado about 30 miles east of us.  So much for the excellent local advice.

Back to today's travel, we arrived at stop #1 about noon.

I ate lunch while Kathy shopped.

She came out with a package and it was on to our next stop at the corner of Rte 86 and P.

Must be there's only 26 cross streets.  Anyway, we pulled into quilt shop #2 for the day, the Bittersweet Quilt Shop.

I haven't seen one of these in a while.

A wringer washer.  

This was a nice store.  Kathy came out with an arm full.

Outside the quilt shop hop, there was a mission to today's destination.  I needed a wheel simulator to replace one that I lost somewhere in New Mexico.  I received a tip that a place here in Missouri was a big RV salvage yard and they might be able to help.  Well, I didn't get the salvage part, but they did stock the new part at a reasonable price.

That will dress up the ugly wheel.

We moved on to tonight's RV park.  It's called the Red Barn RV Park.  Wonder why?

It's a real nice park.  Clean and quiet.  The manager even gave me a couple chocolate chip cookies for showing up.

So tomorrow we move on to the final significant destination, Branson, MO.  It's just a short hop from here...unless Kathy dictates the route again and we take a series of detours.