Another long driving day today in the van. Seth has been doing some driving in the afternoons to allow me to catch up on the blog. I guess you've probably noticed that by now. I started using MS Live Writer to write the blog off-line then post it when we get to a hotel.
We did have a couple pleasant surprises today. First, we were trying to find the world's largest totem pole outside of Claremore, OK. This area is where Will Rogers was going to build his home. We never seemed to find the totem pole but we did find the world's largest private gun collection. It's a long story but a local hotel owner started collecting guns. He ended up with over 20,000 items in his collections. Seth was in hog heaven!
They also had a faceless board...we all had to give it a try.
Secondly, right after we made it into Missouri...my birthplace,
we noticed that the George Washington Carver National Monument was just inside the Missouri state line. Samuel is doing a report on G.W. Carver so we hopped off the interstate to investigate. It was well worth the trip over to the monument. Carver was an amazing individual and I've decided I need to do some more reading on him. Samuel did the Jr. Ranger program again and now is up to 3 Jr. Ranger programs. Way to go Samuel!
We did go down to see the arch after we checked in at the hotel...more on that tomorrow! Time to get some sleep.
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