So… where will we be next summer?
(if everything goes as planned)
It’s kinda like a world-wind tour…
(hope we can see it all)
So what will we be near?
(here’s the buildup)
Paris – only 18 miles away
Cairo – only 41 miles
Havana – 98
Santa Fe – 16
Cincinnati – 4
Mexico – 30
Louisiana – 33
Princeton – 118
Lancaster - 82
and only 8 miles from Florida.
It’s a heaven for fishing, hunting, sailing,
motorboating, swimming, jet-skiing, parasailing,
and basically any kind of water sports.
(if ya like that stuff)
And it’s all in the same one place!
(okay… here’s the lowdown)
Monroe, Missouri
Where?
“Monroe”…. Missouri.
All those other places… they’re nearby towns in Missouri,
they just couldn’t think of any new names they liked,
so they permanently borrow the names of other popular places.
It’s about 25 miles west of Hannibal Missouri and the mighty Mississippi River,
where Samuel Clemens grew up…
ya know… Mark Twain!
and Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and their friend Huck Finn!
So we’ll not doubt take some days off trips to St Louis, Kansas City
and whatever else sots our mood.
Ya just never know where we will be on any given season.
and that’s the beauty of Rving!
New places, new faces, new experiences!
Us in our “covered wagon”…
slowly going across the states.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
as for Sam…
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel."
Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," called "The Father of American Literature."
How amazed people from the 1800’s would be to see the communication technology we enjoy today. Back then, a person that could articulate their thoughts, speak to people, and write of life’s experiences, whether fact or fictional… well… ya see where it got good old Sam. Today, many of us no doubt met or exceed those abilities… education and knowledge… but get lost in the vastness of society and the technology of communication, which makes being heard easier than ever… but also lost among the billions of other voices.
