We left the Lake Paradise campground about 10am this morning. We intended to go west on US50 to sr7 and then south to the town of Harrisonville. However, we missed our turn due to road construction so we went on west to sr291 and took it south.

I had checked on Gasbuddy and found some really cheap gas in Harrisonville but sr7 took us into the middle of town and therefore we would miss about half of the stations with good prices.

Just as we got into town on 291 I saw a Wal-mart with fuel at a cost of $3.42/gallon. If you buy with a Wal-mart card you get another $0.10 per gallon for a cost of $3.32. We filled up with 50.1 gallons for a savings of $5.00, enough to buy a Subway for lunch.

We then drove south to Lamar, MO where we stopped for lunch and a short nap. After which, we proceeded south on US71 to the town of Carthage and the Big Red Barn campground where we will be for a couple of days before we head west toward the Will Rogers Memorial and on toward Tulsa.

The photos are of the back waters of the Missouri River. When we crossed the Mississippi it was in its banks while the Missouri was muddy and spread out over hundreds of acres of bottom lands from the rains up in the Dakotas. It will take some time for the Missouri to get back to its normal pool level.