October 6, 2016. A Short, Familiar Trip - Lake of the Ozarks.

October 6, 2016.  A Short, Familiar Trip - Lake of the Ozarks.  This is a different fall for the Farkleys.  We were in Colorado for a week and Santa Fe, NM, for a week.  We returned home Monday, reloaded and rode Harvey, the RV, to Lake of the Ozarks.  I generally blog while traveling with Harvey, so there will be a short series before we return Harvey to his home in the caves, and drive to Florida for a cruise.  We will then spend a week on Amelia Island before meeting the family at Walt Disney World, in Orlando.  The only portion of the various trips which will be reported here is the one we share with Harvey.

We drove through rain to Versailles, MO, home of Lehman's Restaurant.  It is one of our favorites, serving foods which are prepared by Mennonites living in the area.  The servers are all in Mennonite dresses and the restaurant has an emphasis on home cooking.  The nice folks there also make some pretty fantastic pies.  Annie is on some kind of natural foods kick, so we passed on the pies.  Actually, I didn't have room for pie after making a second trip to the buffet line.

Tonight, we are in Lake of the Ozarks State Park, a very nice campground filled with large oaks.  We have seen the lake from the park, but haven't found our way to the water yet.  The Lake of the Ozarks resulted from the construction of Bagnell Dam on the Osage River by Union Electric Company of St. Louis.  Construction on the dam began in 1929.  Upon completion, it created the largest man-made lake in the United States and one of the largest in the world.  Most Missourians have visited the Lake at one time or another.  My favorite black and white television rests in a watery grave here.  It died in 1968 and received its burial at sunrise the same day that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.

So, we will be here just a few days.  I'll be back between now and the time we return home to reload again for the drive to Florida.  Goodnight.