Shopping Time!

September 9 – We are headed south and drove out of Missouri and into Arkansas.  Nothing much to see along the way and traffic was heavy near towns/cities but pretty sparse out in the boonies.  Bill had changed a couple of our stops so I really didn’t know where we were headed.  We landed in Alma, AR at a small campground not far off the Interstate.  As we drove in we saw a couple of buildings with discount stuff so after we got parked, had lunch and rested a bit we walked over and did some shopping.  The first place was a combination of grocery items going out of date (non refrigerated) and all kinds of other things.  We bought some snacks and I bought some stocking stuffer things and a couple of gift items.  Then we rolled our cart nextdoor and it was a nice discount clothing store.  I bought a beautiful pair of Grasshopper shoes.  I’ve always admired them but they were always more than I was willing to pay.  We picked up a couple of gift items as well.  Then we rolled the cart to the hardware store.  Oh wow, I love hardware stores.  I did get some great buys on inexpensive items but really didn’t need any hardware stuff at this time.  My total there was $1.62!  Big spender!

We dropped the cart back at the first store and carried our bags across the lot to the campground.  Bill didn’t waste any time opening a bag of potato chips!  I will say later they went really well with the glass of wine I was having!

Dinner was leftover chicken alfredo for Bill with a salad and mine was haddock and spinach.  We both enjoyed our entirely different meals. 

After dinner I redid the page of our travel itinerary deleting some places and adding new ones.  We managed to cut out 7 nights so we will get home a bit sooner than the original plan. 

So now to relax a while and read and get a good night’s sleep for the 200 mile drive tomorrow.