More Than Bar-B-Que

August 2-7, 2018

Elks Lodge #2509
Blue Springs, Missouri

We left Minnesota last week after a long stay enjoying the cool temperatures.  It was 98 here today so maybe we should have stayed in Minnesota a little longer.

The RV sites at this Elks Lodge are on a bluff overlooking a large field and woods.  The tree line is about 2 stories lower than our camper so it's important not to back up too far or you will go over the edge. 

When we arrived the lodge was smoking 240 full racks of ribs for a big event on the weekend.  Naturally we had ribs for dinner twice.





We have had many friends recommend the Steamboat Arabia if we were ever in the Kansas City area again.  We made it a point to visit this time and were not disappointed.













The museum is filled with over 200 tons of cargo that was retrieved from the steamboat after it was located in a farm field under about forty-five feet of river-bottom silt.  The most interesting part was talking to some of the men that were involved in that endeavor.














For a change of pace, today we visited the Moon Marble Company.  We thought this would be a quick stop but we had so much fun we stayed much longer than we had planned.












This unassuming building sits right next to the railroad tracks with hardly enough room to park.

The owner demonstrated how marbles are hand blown while we sat on old elementary school bleachers.  Since we are not exactly elementary school children it took quite a bit of work to extradite ourselves from these tiered benches.




We leave here tomorrow and will probably head west to Kansas.