September 26 - Our last day in Branson

My first day wearing a jacket

At the Buffalo River

We woke to a pretty chilly morning, which pretty much stuck around all day. It looked like a day in Ohio that was going to drop snow at any moment. It was just so gray and gloomy all day. I made our regular Sunday breakfast then got ready to head south to AK. This was all good roads so I managed to sit up the whole way. Went to the Tyler Bend Visitors center of the Buffalo National River. The National Park Service owns the land along about 140 miles of the river and you can visit at a number of points. There are numerous hiking trails, canoeing and rafting, campgrounds, waterfalls, rock formations and wildlife habitats. You could easily spend a week here enjoying it all if the weather conditions were conducive. We’d seen a special on TV that peaked our interest in visiting. The water is low in much of the river this time of year so we knew we couldn’t do any river travel. We checked out one of the campgrounds for a possible trip back and we visited the cabin that was homesteaded in the 1930’s and still stand back in. This area of the country was the last government homestead land and some families from Kentucky took a week to get here. The Collier Homestead didn’t have electric or running water until the 1960’s. It’s a rough looking cabin but the family lived there until the park service bought the land back.

Our site in Branson, see Chief Wahoo
our sign and baby cactus

We had planned to clean the bugs off the front of the RV today but it was just too cold for me to climb up on the RV and do the top, but Bill did the front that he could reach. I did laundry, made phone calls and got some things readied up to leave tomorrow.

Ducks along Lake Taneycomo at
our campground

Got to Skype with Karen just before dinner. It will be nice to be in touch and see each other. Also saves on my phone minutes too.

We had steamed shrimp and brown rice for dinner. I was planning to make a salad but forgot and had to heat up a can of green beans instead. We watched the season opener of Desperate Housewives and then had our peach crisp dessert. I attempted to balance my check book, but it’s out of whack so will try again another time.

We really enjoyed our week in Branson, can’t believe it’s time to move on down the road. Never know, we might be back. There’s still plenty to see. Time for bed now.