Two day report and now in Osage Beach, MO

Sunday--

Another great day, hot/humid weather is back....UGH!! Jay, 1st Lady, and this OLD man went over to SE Evansville to visit the Angel Indian Mounds State Historical Site. They have put together a good museum and historical informational center......we really enjoyed learnig about the "mound" early Americans!!!! This particular group lived in this area by the Ohio River from around 1100 - 1490 AD and had a thriving civilization/cultural at the site. They built 11 mounds which were sites for various social orders to live on.....the higher the mound, the higher the social order....i.e..chiefs. etc.

Very few pieces of pottery or artistic artifacts have been found, but the knowledge of this group is gained from studying other mound groups in the central part of the USA.

We walked out around a couple of mounds, but there really is not much else to see there.....an example of the wall fortifications which they are known to have built, and an example of their summer homes with only a thatch type roof on poles. It became soooo hot and muggy that we decided to not walk around to visit all of the mounds.

Lunch was in order after retirning to the car...and soooo Jay took us over to Henderson, KY....just across the river. We stopped at a BBQ place and since I do not wish to be sued, I will not give out the name of the establishment,,,,,but, we will not return to that eatery again!!! ENOUGH SAID!!!!

We headed back to Evansville and took in a late afternoon movie: "The Island". WOW.....this was an interesting story line......with food for lots of discussion afterwards. Go see this one.....a bit futuristic, but then......maybe not tooooooo much in the future.

A cold, salt-rimmed Margarita was needed by all of us,,,,,so we stopped at a great little Mexican cafe for drinks with chips and salsa.....will eat THERE on the next run over to Evansville!!

Back to TheHowserHouse and soon to put this tired and margarita-sopped man to bed.....besides...it is getting late and tomorrow is a travel day.....about 360 miles and pulling this House thru St. Louis traffic!!!!! LOTS of concentration required to get thru that busy place.

Monday....

Well, we left the RV Park about 8:30 this morning......a bit of duck tape was necessary to hold up some important wires and cables under the entertainment slide!!!! AGAIN...another slight design flaw of the factory designers......a piece of flexible rubber/plastic(?) that bends and shifts when the slides retracts and which has the wires/cables attached to it decided to split and come apart which then let the wires droop downward toward the road!!!! Soooo, the tape to the rescue......NEVER travel without duck tape!!!!!!!!!

We arrived at Osage Beach RV Park about 4:30pm....after a stop at a Flying J for fuel for the truck and fuel for the two of us humans...adequate, but have eaten better food at other Flying J's. Tooooo hot to stop at a rest area to dine inside TheHowserHouse.

The Park.....well, not quite as gorgeous as the website might have one to believe....but it is close to the shopping and eateries!! So off we went to the OUTLET MALL.....and the 1st Lady found a shoe store going out of business.....one of her favorite shoe stores....so, I will have to get permission from the state highway dept. to allow me to pull TheHowserHouse with toooo much weight in it........SHOES!!!!!!!!

A call from Mike(Osage) saying he was here in the cg.....but didn't get the message until toooo late.....sorry,,,....we were loading shoes into the truck at the store at that time!!!!

So, will close this utterly useless rambling of my last two days and grab a book for some reading with my red medicine......

Tomorrow......