If you like cloudy, foggy, rainy Fall weather, today was your day. We departed from St. Louis at 7:30 AM CDT at 69 degrees. It was foggy most of the day, but we didn’t hit rain until we approached Kansas City. Fortunately, the rain was never heavy enough to slow us down, but once it started it was very constant.
Out of pure luck we managed to time our trip through Kansas City shortly after the Kansas City vs Jacksonville NFL game started so we were not impacted by game traffic.
We stopped for fuel in Columbia, MO at a QuickTrip station where the diesel fuel was much less expensive than at the high end travel plazas (Flying-J and Loves) and a very nice store (comparable to a Wawa station). Beth discovered their Iced Tea bar (which was massive and had every type of Iced Tea you can imagine). She loved her unsweetened tea (in Styrofoam cup).
We stopped for lunch at the first rest area on the I-70 Kansas Turnpike and enjoyed our leftover spaghetti from Beth’s retirement luncheon on Thursday (thanks Mike and Rick for the second great meal!).
We arrived at the Triple-J RV Park in Russell, KS at 4:50 PM CDT. The temperature upon arrival was 52 degrees and the rain was pretty steady, so we turned the heater on for the first time in ages and hunkered down watching host Scott Hanson on the NFL RedZone for the rest of the day.