Crossing Missouri

Another simply beautiful day!  It's 59 degrees at 7:30am.  We gased up in Council Bluff where we stayed and our little focus gave us 38.2 miles per gallon even at 70 mph speeds and running the air conditioner.  We headed south on I-29 for Kansas City, Mo.  Lots of road construction on I-90, assigning our speed 55 mph. on a 1-lane hywy.  We entered Missouri, the "Show me State" at 8:45am.  The State bird: Bluebird, St. flower: Hawthorne, State Motto: The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.
Black-eyed Susans line the roadsides and Cornfields surround us on both sides and go on and on.  Some fields have started combining the dry, yellowed, crisp stalks.  We notice all creeks and rivers are muddy.
We took a short side trip to the J.C. Penny Museum in Hamilton, Mo.  "Jimmy" started his company in 1902.  He called it the "Golden Rule Store".....High Quality and Low Prices!  He also raised champion Angus Bulls to show as his hobby.
As we crossed the Grant River at Chillicothe, there is much evidence of recent flooding with mud deposited in fields as the waters subsided.  Many crops were ruined.
Later we stopped in Marceline, Mo. to have lunch.  While there we visited Walt Disney's Museum as this was his hometown.  His museum was the restored Train Depot for the Santa Fe.  While we were going through the museum a train came thundering through within 30 feet of the museum.  The rumble of the engines made us feel like we were "goners"! 

Dick and J.C. (Jimmy) Penney in Hamilton, MO.

Walt Disney Museum in Marceline, Mo.

In Hannibal, Mo. along the Mississippi.

In front of the "Mark Twain" sternwheeler.

Then we traveled onward to Hannibal, Mo.  And there in front of us was the Huge Mississippi River.  We went to the riverfront through the town's flood gates to where the "Mark Twain" sternwheeler was anachored.  We are bedded down for the evening in a brand new super 8 in Todd, Mo.