Oct 11 Bailing on Columbus
This morning I got the heck out of
dodge! (Well not really Dodge since I haven’t made it that far west yet but that’s
more evocative than saying I got out of Columbia.) I was a little disappointed
that I hadn’t found the perfect property and left there wondering if north central Missouri may not be
the perfect place to be looking for that perfect property. Makes me feel a
little lost.
Maybe our standards are too high, or
maybe our place in Texas, despite being far from family, is just setting the bar that high. Don’t know, but
definitely time to give it a rest for a while and move on.
I made the trip back down to Jeff
City to pick up US50 again and continued wandering west. I stopped for a while
in the town of California where an Amtrak train blasted through a few feet from
where I was parked. It’s a bit surprising to be going by these small towns in
Missouri, both on the Kansas City/St. Louis corridor as well as Jeff
City/Columbia and points north, and see Amtrak station signs, some of them in
really small towns.
California is a cool sounding name
for a town but there’s not a whole lot of town there, though it is within easy
drive of Jeff City. In fact from Jeff City to right there at California US50 is
a brand new 4 lane divided road cutting through what my map showed as farm land.
Which of course means the area is now ripe for developers which means high
prices and population growth, neither of which make for a good place to live.
I had a surprisingly difficult time
finding diesel fuel in Sedalia which was otherwise a pleasant human-scale town halfway
between Jeff City and Kansas City. And later I skirted around the south side of
Kansas city and landed for the night at a campground I have used before in
Emporia Kansas. Nothing to get too excited about with busy roads on two sides
and the WIFI here is mostly useless, but it gets me on the west side of the
heavy population area which makes it a good spot from which to launch my trek
across Kansas in the morning. (Notice the upper crust grammar in that thar sentence?!)
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