Today is our first travel day (pulling Bentley) since June 17. We've had a good time here in Branson. Fortunately, it's a great location to meet up with friends and as you know we've managed to get together with quite a few of them in the 4 weeks (almost) we've been here. We are so thankful for our RV friends which have helped make the time past much faster than it might have otherwise. Even though we haven't done much it has been nice to also get out for a drive, stop at a store, etc. While we could do that in Oswego - the variety here in the Branson/Springfield/Hollister are is just a little better.
It was about 11:30-12:00 when we pulled out of Treasure Lake. Rather than worry about stopping to make our lunch we cheated and drove to Dairy Queen for a couple of burgers. We returned to Bentley to have our lunch. I called the Treasure Lake office earlier this morning to see about renting a cabin for my daughter Misti and her two children Logan and Haleigh. They plan to be here on the 29th of July for one evening and spend the day with us on the 30th. We are not sure yet what we will be doing - maybe Dolly Parton's Stampede; maybe Silver Dollar City; maybe just being lazy....who knows! No matter what, we are looking forward to it.
The drive to Lamar was almost uneventful until we both turned north on State Highway 37, with me in the lead. I looked back after going a short distance and noticed Dean had pulled off the road and was outside. Oh no, now what? I was far enough ahead, with no easy place to turn around so I stopped and watched for traffic. Fortunately, it was a nice level road so I could see a great distance in front and behind me. When I saw Dean getting back in the truck I called him. It seems his auxiliary fuel tank was not passing fuel through to the main gas tank. We only have about 68 miles of gas left on the main tank. It's not that far to Lamar so we are good. We'll stop to get gas before going on to Brett's house which is only a few miles out in the country.
When we reached Lamar Heights (a small village literally at the edge of Lamar) we stopped at a large truck stop where Dean was able to get enough gas to not only get us to Brett's but more than enough to take us to Oswego on Monday. It wasn't long after we left the truck stop that we were pulling in to the driveway just north of Brett's. It belongs to his neighbor but he's given Brett permission to use it, and it allows us to pull right in next to the 50 amp plug we need to use while we are here. We were getting things set up when grandson Tucker came out. We got Bentley set up, turned the air conditioning on and went in to the house to cool off and visit with Tucker until Brett gets home later. Hopefully Bentley will be cooled down by the time he arrives. Once Brett arrived we all visited for an hour or so before we decided to head into Lamar for dinner at Caps' Cabin Restaurant.
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| Papa playing with Winston. |
Dean wanted to change clothes before we left. While I was waiting on him I decided to start "unpacking" the few things I have to put away when we travel. We have an ice machine that we set on the floor when we are traveling. I started to pick it up to put it on the stand Dean made for it and I noticed water on the floor. Hmmm... it's right under the air conditioner and there is water beading on the cover above. Plop....plop....yes, water is leaking from above. I cleaned the water up - it was almost entirely on the linoleum, thank goodness, and I put a bowl under it. We turned that air conditioner off, set a fan in the bedroom to push air to the front room and went to eat dinner. We'll investigate it further when we return.
Dean had eaten at Caps' with Brett once before. He told me how good it was so I was anxious to try it out. Their special tonight was Piled High fried fish for $9.99, but I thought it sounded like too much food for me, so I ordered the 2 piece fish basket. It came with 2 sides and 2 hushpuppies and it was more than enough. Brett & Dean got the piled high and it really was a lot of food. Tucker had the Peanut Butter & Jelly Burger with Bacon. Interesting mixture but he liked it. I would give my meal a 4.5. The okra was excellent. The slaw and the fish was very good, but I have had others I liked just a bit better. However, that being said, I would not hesitate to return here as it was very good. Brett told us about another restaurant in nearby Golden City, MO called Cooky's. He said their homemade pies are delicious, so we may have to visit Cooky's before we leave here on Monday.
After dinner we took a tour of Lamar, population around 4,500. It's a very nice small town that sits just off of I-49, and the county seat of Barton County. They have a beautiful courthouse located on the city square. Lamar is the birthplace of former President Harry Truman. We drove by the house where he was born and I took this picture.
There is a visitor's center located across the street but it was closed for the day. We drove by the city lake where Brett and the kids go kayaking, through the City Park which is really beautiful, tried to find their RV park and when we finally did I have to say it was not much to look at or stay at with only 20amp service; by their schools which were older but nicely maintained, by the golf course which Dean would like to try playing on sometime, and drove through several residential districts with some really beautiful homes. It was a very enjoyable drive.
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| Beautiful sunset outside Bentley tonight. |
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| Brett checking out the air conditioner for us. |
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| Tucker's dog Winston and a beautiful sunset. |
We returned to Bentley. Dean thought maybe the air conditioner had froze up - but hardly any water had dripped into the bowl I left underneath it, so we ruled that out. Brett got up on the roof, took the cover off. It appeared the condensation from the air conditioner was not running to the drain at the back and instead it appeared the drips were going inside. Dean raised the front slightly and pretty quickly a small amount of run-off was draining off the back. It was fine all night with the AC running, so at this point we will continue to watch it and hopefully there won't be any other problems.
After checking on the air conditioner we came in and visited with Brett and Tucker for awhile before going outside to enjoy setting on the back porch.
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| View from the back porch. |
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