June 23, 2012 ~~~ Spent last night in Union City, Tennessee.  We pulled in there and got our "camp" set up about 9:00 pm, exhausted from a long and rather emotional day.  We were next to a HUGE corn field on one side of us and a military base not too far away on the other.  We got to watch the helicopters from the base flying over and this morning were awakened by a crop duster flying over at what looked and sounded like HOUSE TOP level!

This is one of the photos we took at Union City... we knew you would all enjoy it.  :-)

Yep, that's what it says... $2.97 a gallon.

This part of Tennessee is almost all farming and we drove by thousands of acres of corn, but it's not sweet corn... not sure what "variety" it is, maybe hominy?  AND the closer to the Mississippi River we got, the more peanut fields we saw!  Thousands of acres of peanut fields.  Neither of us has ever seen a peanut plant before.  This is what they look like:

Kinda like a regular pea plant on steroids!  Well, after all, a PEAnut is a kind of pea!  And now I want to grow some... must get some to plant with Katie and Wyatt and Tiny next year.

So we crossed the Mississippi River (VERY BIG) into the southern part of Missouri and into the Ozarks and the Mark Twain National Forest (oak trees), and stopped for the night at West Plains, Missouri in a Good Sam RV Park.

The Ozarks (so far anyway) are pretty, but NOT as spectacular as the Appalachians.  A few people had "warned" us about the route we took because of the "twisting and winding" roads.  These Ozark roads were a piece of cake after some of the Appalachian roads we were on in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky!  The roads had "curves" and lots of them... but we were traveling over rolling hills... NOT razorback ridges and up and down ravines a thousand feet down!  Once we got into Missouri we began seeing rice fields and no corn, and eventually no peanuts either.  In the area we are in now it's mostly rolling hills, hay farming, and cows.  And yes, they are still standing in the ponds up to their bellies to cool off!

Went for a little swim tonight as it was over 90 degrees and we had the pool (and nearly the whole RV Park) to ourselves.  There is only one other camper here and we haven't seen hide nor hair of them.  Very quiet, no children here at all ... and a nice pool.  :-)

Good night all.... Darrell is firing up the BBQ, so I'm going out to join him.