August 1, 2007 – St. Louis to Kansas City

We left St. Louis about 10am and arrived at Kansas City around 2 pm. Couple of milestones: Illinois was 3783 (we actually crossed Illinois on July 30), Missouri was around 3942 (the second time, we stayed on the Illinois side of St. Louis). One significant milestone today was the RV’s oil change. I used the GPS to find nearby automotive shops and then I had to find one that had a bay door big enough to take the RV. Thankfully, I found a nice two-man shop only 1 mile from the campground that had an outdoor lift they use to change oil on school buses. I was also fortunate to be able to call at 2:30pm and they took me today. I’ll have to plan ahead a little more for the next one. Tomorrow we drive about 4 hours to Lincoln, Nebraska. Sheri’s great grandmother (who was born in the 1880s) moved from Iowa to Nebraska in the late 1800s, and Sheri still has family in that area. She recorded a nice compilation of her diaries throughout her life and we have read them during our trip. It’s amazing to hear her life story and the changes that took place from transportation in a horse drawn wagon to the automotive era.