Day 7 September 4, 2025 Seymour Missouri to Paducah Kentucky 276 miles
We had a little rain overnight. The side curtains were not on but the inside of the woodie didn’t get wet. That was lucky. Not raining now but very foggy. Rain is forecasted for tomorrow.
Next door is what appears to be an older motel converted into apartments. A resident came out with her dog. A rope is tied to a large tree. At the end of the rope is a ball. The dog loves to play with the rope and ball. It grabs the rope and spins very fast. Never seen a dog do that. It repeated the process several times.
The GPS took us on frontage roads whenever possible rather than going on the divided highway as much. Really don’t understand why. The frontage roads didn’t usually parallel the divided highway so we went a total of about 10 extra miles several times. The sights on the frontage roads might have been better. Sometimes the trees formed a canopy. We were not impressed when two sections were gravel.
We passed the Historic Home and Museum of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Unfortunately it didn’t soak in until we were well passed it and no good place to turn around. We will save that stop and visit for another time.
Some of the shoemack plants are beginning to change color. Their leaves are bright yelllow, orange and red. A few more weeks and the foliage should be very colorful.
We have seen numerous fields with a plant we are not familiar with. Our speculation is that they are peanuts. None of them are being harvested at this time.
Some of the corn fields are now being harvested. The corn stalks look brown. They are cutting it low to the ground and then seem to grind it before loading in big semis. Not sure where it goes from there. Rob thinks that it will be silage.
We drove off the highway into a small town to find a park and eat lunch. We found the small town. The only park was the baseball field. We parked under a tree near home base and ate our picnic lunch. On the way out a policeman stopped us and told us we were going the wrong way on a one-way street. He was nice and didn’t give us a ticket.
We finally got to a point of driving on backroads without zigzagging across the divided highway. These roads had a lot of traffic including semis. We crossed the Mississippi River and very shortly crossed the Ohio River. Both are large rivers at this point. The big bridges were narrow and felt very narrow when we met semis.
We finally arrived in Paducah about 5 pm. We needed to do laundry so we found the 24 hour laundromat. They use a card rather than quarters. The facility was clean and well maintained.
Tomorrow at least Connie will go to the National Quilt Museum and the large fabric store. By the way Paducah is one of a handful of UNESCO creative cities whatever that means.
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