A day of rest and a drive home

We decided not to leave Sunday, but instead took it as a day of rest. We had worked for eight days in a row, cleaning house, and we were mentally and physically exhausted. We went to church, went out for lunch, and decided what we were going to take with us.

We got on the road fairly early on Monday, heading down I-64 for St. Louis and I-70.

Cahokia Mounds State park is a UN World Heritage Site, outside of St. Louis. It is perhaps the largest representative of the Mississipian culture, a mound building culture that flourished in the central US. It's greatest period was around 1100 AD.


The park has a very good museum, showing many of the artifacts that they found in the mounds. The mounds themselves, except for the largest mound, Monk's mound, are not terribly impressive, so it was good that we visited the museum first.

After a couple of hours at Cahokia Mounds, we pressed on through St. Louis, ultimately stopping at at commercial campground near Danville Missouri. It was hot, and we were happy to plug in the camper and turn on the air conditioning.

Tuesday was a driving day. After lunch, we decided that the camper was too hot for the cats, so we put them in a cat carrier and put them in the truck. We stopped at Wilson Lake, Kansas, in a Bureau of Reclamation campground that we have used before. Air conditioning was again necessary.

Wednesday we drove the rest of the way home. Again we took the cats into the truck at lunchtime. We were pretty tired when we got home. The house and the yard looked pretty good, as people had come in while we were gone.