We were back on the road today, leaving our plain accommodations in New Franklin and continuing our westward trek. We escaped from the smooth, wide federal interstate system highway I-70 about 10 miles west of New Franklin and veered onto the very pleasant rural highways of Missouri. The state roads might quite possibly be better than the interstate highways, at least when it comes to paving and scenery quality. Southern Missouri is rolling grass and forest lands that border the wide and muddy Missouri River. There are substantial limestone bluffs that border the river and all the road cuts along Missouri 36.
We pulled back off the highway about 175 miles later when we drove into the A OK RV Park just north of St. Joseph, Missouri. It is a nice park with full hookups, a very small laundry, nice grass between sites, shade, great satellite antenna reception, good wifi and does not have railroad tracks anywhere within earshot. We want to go into St. Joseph tomorrow but, unfortunately, we have to do our long-neglected laundry. It is not like we really need clothes here because it is hotter than hell and wearing nothing is more comfortable than wearing anything. However, the laundry may rot in the humidity and we can’t have that.