Day Two: to Eureka Springs, Arkansas

A good second day of the road trip.  Beverly and I are still talking to each other ... and having a good time.

It was 41 degrees when we left the TC yesterday morning.  This morning in northern Missouri it was 28 degrees.  What is up with that?  I went for chilly morning run past the campus of Truman State University.  Kirksville really is running friendly:
I also ran past WhyNotTat2s and TnTGuns.  We're in the south.

We had a mid-day stop in Columbia, MO where we visited the Shelter Insurance Gardens
and found spring
before having lunch in the arts district at the Utopia Cafe (farm to table).

We still have the blueberry and goat cheese pie and bread pudding for eating in our room this evening.

On the way further south after driving through Lake of the Ozarks, we couldn't resist visiting Nancy Ballhagen's Puzzles in Sleeper, Missouri with over 3.100 different puzzles in stock.  Fancy it was not.  It's one of those places that you would be disappointed later if you didn't stop.
We have ended the day in Eureka Springs, Arkansas where the temperature upon arrival was 77.

We went without reservations for the second consecutive night!  We're staying at the 1886 Crescent Hotel, on the list of Historic Hotels of America
 where we had drinks and appetizers on the sky deck.

Tomorrow we knock around Eureka Springs and then head to the hometown of Phillips Petroleum: Bartlesville, Oklahoma.  We'll be TOR CON 4 tomorrow so look in the sky for pieces of us flying by if a tornado comes our way.

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