First the good news: We arrived at Dan and Teri Gregg’s home at about 3:00pm on Wednesday, Aug. 3rd – Carol’s birthday. We visited Dan and Teri last time we passed through the area on our 2010 trip – that visit was unplanned until the last minute as was this one. Dexter, MO seems to be the crossroads of 2-lane America – and, after visiting Branson and setting our sights on Harrisburg, PA instead of our earlier planned route through Ohio we found ourselves passing through there again.
We stopped at a grocery store for a birthday cake and Teri and Dan greeted us with plans for a home-made dinner. We sang happy birthday to Carol and even had a candle on the cake. Teri served us a delicious dinner and then gave us the recipe. We spent the night in their driveway in our own bedroom and their electricity for A/C and then went in for a great breakfast before leaving at around 10:00 am.
Barbie started acting up a few miles down the road. I noticed that there was a significant lack of engine power and it took forever to diagnose it. We spent the day on the phone trying everything to get her running smoothly again. Hopefully we now know that the carburetor seems to be at least partially plugged up or sticking. Tomorrow morning my plan is to take the carburetor off the engine and take the top off of it to clean it internally. Wish me luck.
Carol, in spite of hurting her back somehow, managed to put a great leftover dinner together – BBQ pork sandwiches and homemade macaroni and cheese. A little while later Dan and Teri showed up with a care package to make us feel better – some delicious herbal mixes, olive oil and bread along with a really wonderful locally grown peach, cheesesticks, watermelon and a great looking apple. These GMC folks are really the best – yes, you can buy another brand of RV but you won’t have friends like these that come along with them. Thanks Dan and Teri!
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Armand, for two people who have never met, our connection grows……Besides you being in my sisters wedding about 50 years ago…..now you have parasailed on Captain Sammy’s boat, at State Park Marina. Sammy just bought my houseboat from me after 20 years of ownership. If you did ride on Sam’s boat, you walked right past Spirit of America, the big sailing catamaran. I had that boat built and operated it for ten years before selling it to Capt Jack, who worked for me. He makes money with it, I did not. So..someday we might need to actually meet. When you went to see Dan and Teri, you went north on 65 to HWY 60. When you (finally) got on hwy 60, you were about 2 miles from my house.
You keep writin’…..I will keep reading.
I should have signed my message….
Larry Nelson
Springfield, MO
Well heck. If we would have known you were there we would have at least stopped by – next time. We actually did not go on 60, we just sat at that old closed truck stop all day and used the parking lot for testing – details later. Dan suggested going on I-57 to get over the river and then go down the Illinois side and hook back up where we would have been. That worked great.
Yes, that was Capt. Sammie – the only parasail guy there. I think he might be bored – but a nice guy. I remember a big catamaran there but didn’t notice the name. This is a small world sometimes.
Larry, I just noticed your signature says Springfield. I misunderstood. We did go through the Springfield area when we left Branson.