Monday August 30, 2010
Driving south through Missouri past the capital at Springfield and past Ft Leonard Wood which as I remember was Forrest’s first stop in the Army in where 1997 they were going to make him an engineer, read “how to blow up things” and other assorted support tasks, before he convinced some Sergeant to have him transferred to Ft Benning NC for Airborne training.
The Missouri Lake of the Ozarks area is BOAT COUNTRY; offshore racing boats, drag boats, ski boats, bass boats, house boats, pontoon boats, canoes and kayaks, lots of boats. And if wives don’t want to join in on all the testosterone there are the outlet malls and at night there are the casinos. Lake of the Ozarks is a happening place.
Also the guys around here like high-rise diesel pick-up trucks with twin chrome dump exhausts going straight up in the truck-bed.
Close to Springfield MO I stopped at the Historic Route 66 Welcome Center and I got closer to Oklahoma City I started seeing and hearing names I remembered for my childhood when I played cowboys and Indians all the time.
It was hard to find a place to take a picture of the St Louis Gateway to the West.
Tuesday August 31st and today I am in Oklahoma City at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. This museum presents a history of the west through the Mountain Men, the western Army and the cowboys. There are also beautiful sculptures and paintings. I would rank this museum very high and recommend a visit if you are in the area; but watch out for the rough roads in the OK City area.
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