Crime is low in campgrounds, but it unfortunately does happen. Early clues were a Chevy dually who would slow down and give a confused stare every time they drove by our minimalistic teardrop setup, or when a suspicious couple entered our site to comment that we must really like each other to live in something so small. Either way, they must have spotted their target, and we are not getting Sheri’s shower dress back. It is obviously stolen as she would never leave it hanging on the back of the shower door. Either way, we hope it brings them the same amount of joy Sheri will have thrifting a new one.
There are days we make music, play pickleball and taste regional cuisine. Then there are days we drive. Hundreds of miles with nothing to do but listen to Sirius XM 70s on 7, the latest Hedge Fund Tips with Tom Hayes podcast and Eric explaining the significance of Missouri in the Civil War as we drive from one side of the state to the other. Pick your poison. If the Prof talks loud, you get two! There was a lot going on with Missouri and the Civil War, but too bad for you it will not fit in this blog. Lecture available on request.
Over the past two days we’ve driven the interstate highways of Tennessee and Kentucky before a roadside stop in Illinois to post a blog, a drive by of the St. Louis Arch and an overnight on a perfectly acceptable concrete pad in the woods of eastern Missouri. Tired of semis and relentless construction, closed lanes and jersey walls, we took the scenic route to thrift across Missouri in search of a replacement for the stolen shower dress, plus 2 soup spoons, a belt to secure the Space X Starlink box and a portable CD player so we could listen to the album Jamie Adamson gave us after our songwriting collab in Nashville.
With a search on thrift stores between Babler and Big Lake State Parks, we honed in on Macon and St. Joseph. Macon is in a downtown renaissance with a focus on second hand stores. Macon, MO is exactly the kind of place that Gen Z and Gen Alpha ought to be flocking. For the price of a mid-Atlantic condo, you could have the HDTV Dream Home.
Main Street has a new coffee shop, wine bar, and theater. Once vacant spaces are being renovated for the inevitable build it and they will come. The town vibe is wholesome, family oriented, and affordable. Is Sheric on to the beginnings of a movement that has not happened yet?
100 miles down the road in St. Josephs, we threw in a load at Belt Laundromat and procured 2 shower dresses at Thrift World to go with the spoons and belt from Macon when the skies opened and the rain started to fall. Like Nick Foles, we called a Philly Special and bailed on an all night downpour in Big Lake for a 20,000 point reward redemption for a Best Western Plus in Omaha. The play surprised the defense as we wound up 120 miles further down the road setting us up for an art-all-day touchdown in Sioux Falls, SD. For the record, even with a king bed, cable, and breakfast buffet we missed the T@G.
