On Tuesday, October 8, we started our fall journey. Our first goal was. to get to Fayetteville, Arkansas to visit Mike and Marti. We took the WSU route to Pullman, in order to take the scenic drive down western Idaho. In Moscow, ID, we stopped to take a peak at the property where the gruesome college student murders took place. Heading south past Lewiston, the scenery was very beautiful. We had driven this highway before, but had not appreciated it rolling hills and canyons. Unfortunately, darkness fell upon us as we approached McCall. After a Mexican dinner and a late night drive, we settled into a rest area for the night in our SUV RV. Wednesday we drove through southern Idaho and southeastern Wyoming, stopping at Cokeville Elementary, where a notorious hostage situation took place in the 1980's. We found a dumpy grumpy motel in Rawlings, Wyoming and enjoyed a moonlit walk. Thursday was a blast through Wyoming and Nebraska with stops at the Lincoln Highway rest stop in Wyoming and a nice walk near the Archway in Kearney, Nebraska. Dinner in downtown Lincoln and an evening drive brought us to a night in a rest area in Missouri. Friday we slowed down a little and spent 3 hours in the Harry Truman library and museum in Independence, Missouri. We really enjoyed it. I never realized how much of the international landscape, as we know it, was put into place during Truman's two terms: Europe, Israel, Japan, Korea. We drove to Joplin and checked into a Days Inn with a host of hot rod enthusiasts on a cross country rally. Saturday morning was a short drive to Fayetteville with a swing through Bentonville, home of Walmart.
