We had plans to get up this morning and be ready to leave by 9:00 a.m. to go to Colaw RV Parts in Carthage. They sell new RV parts & RV related supplies, used RV parts and RV's. We had heard of this business and wanted to check it out, so we did. I purchased a small black folding stool that I can stand on to get to things in my taller cabinets, a telescopic handled broom w/dustpan so I can put my broom & dustpan in a cabinet & some white tension rods to put in my frig. to keep stuff from falling off shelf end while traveling. All of these items were new. They disassemble wrecked vehicles for used parts. If someone was refurbishing a camper or needed a replacement part they might just find it at this store. Bob told me that he has called to see if they had something he wanted before, but had no luck, but I'm sure that they have an ever-changing inventory of used parts.
Then, we went to another store that we thought might be interesting to go to in Carthage, but we were not too impressed.
I did notice that Carthage has a really nice, looks to have been recently renovated, architecturally beautiful courthouse in the middle of the town square. It really looks nice on the outside; bet it looks great inside as well if the inside was renovated as nice as the exterior. I had my camera with me but didn't even think of taking a picture of it.
We grabbed a quick bite at Taco Bell and then went back to finish getting things ready in camper for the travel mode...our check out time was noon. By the way, we really liked the Coachlight RV Park in Carthage....a very nice, well-kept RV park. We will be back, and next time I want to stay at least 2 nights or more because I saw a few shops that I would like to go explore in the Carthage/Joplin area. We stayed overnight in a campground in Carthage early last spring and went to the Precious Moments Chapel (which is a neat place to tour if you are in the area). Joplin, which is nearby, is larger and has a lot of restaurants and good shopping.
We were on the road again, drove to Lee's Summit; about 150 miles away. Bob said the 5th Wheel pulled real good.
Saw this large mushroom along the highway we traveled....think'in it would probably get a blue ribbon at the State Fair.
Bob had made reservations online a while back so we knew we had a spot. We have camped at Jacomo Campground ($28/night Full H/U) before and really liked this campground. It has large trees, not a lot of traffic in and out, and shade if you get the right sites. Luckily, we had reservations, because by the time we got there this afternoon, the full hookup sites were all taken. In our opinion, we have the best site in the campground and were very surprised it was available when Bob made the reservations. Last time we were here we walked around with a map of the sites and made notes as to the sites we liked best, the sites we liked and could fit in, etc. We have got a view of the lake at the site we are on and shade...can't get much better than that! Oops! I forgot to take pictures of the campground and our site. I'll take pictures of our si sometime in the next two days while we are here.
We have some nieces that live in this area that we hope to see since we are here; one of them we think is out of town though. There's a couple of stores that I want to go to and a few items on our shopping list to get while here.
We are just planning to chill the rest of today.
Have a good day!!
Fd $9.45 Csh/
Diesel $3.659/gal x 33.997 gal = $124.48
jl
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