We left Highland, Illinois at 7:45AM and at 8:15 we crossed the Mississippi River. The Missouri River is flooded a quarter mile on each side! By 10:15AM our right front tire blew out! The angels must have been with us because the shoulder was very small and Daddy had to hold the wheel really tight to control the coach. If he had gone over on the shoulder another 6 inches we would have rolled over because the shoulder is a very steep drop off!
We had to sit on I-70 for 7 hours! Nobody could find a replacement tire until Tuesday AM! Our left tires are on the white line for the right driving lane of the interstate! Daddy called around and found a tire at a Love's Gas station 20 miles away! By 7:30PM we left the gas station with 2 brand new tires on the front of the coach. We saw a sign for Kansas City, Missouri 100 miles away,which is only 20 miles from Kansas. on a service road we found a RV Park called The Great Escape alongside I-70. Greta loved the walk on the next morning. She walked me all around their 2 ponds and all over the fields. I picked some big clover and a plant similar to the wild jimson weed from the cotton fields. It has a thick milky stalk, but the flower is lime green with lavender and small tiny oval shaped buds that open all along the shape. The flower doesn't resemble the jimson weed, but the leaves do.! carolyn would love it. I'm adding it to the magnolia bloom from Nashville. it's too big to press in a big ook. need to find out what it is. it seems to grow wild all over the roadside. The stem is thick and the thick leaves are similar to a hydrangea; but the flower is 1/3rd the size and lime green and lavendar. When Daddy walked Greta, she was so excited she knocked the trash out of his hands!
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