Out of touch- Boonieville

On our way to Hannibal, Missouri, we spent two nights at Boiling Springs Resort outside of Dixon, Missouri.   This campground was 6 miles off interstate 70 and then another 8 miles down a country road, and finally 1/4 mile over rough gravel and down a hill to this campground.  It looked like a farmers pasture with some gravel driveways.  They rented canoes, kayaks, and inner tubes and transported canoe trips from one location to another besides having camping sites.  There were several tent campers, a few trailers and two motorhomes, ours and one other.  We had planned to kayak here, but the weather was threatening the first night. We instead went out to the interstate and got groceries at Wal-mart and had dinner at Cracker Barrel. An army base is located at Dixon, Fort Leonard Woods, so we saw many of our fine young military men and their families while visiting Dixon. When we returned and finished setting up, we realized for the first time we had no internet, or telephone service.  We were really out in the boonies.

While walking Pralines we meet the other couple who had a motorhome.  They had a kayak of their own, but hadn't used it because the water was chocolate brown.  The heavy rains had caused run off that make the river brown.  Last week their daughter and her family had camped at Boiling Springs and the water was crystal clear.

It was not our favorite spot, as we felt like we had fallen off the face of the earth with no internet or cell phone service.  We needed to make reservations for our campground in Columbia, Missoui, our next stop on the way to Hannibal but couldn't because we had no service. We had wanted to stay 4 days at Cottonwood RV Park in Columbia, Missouri but we just had to go ahead and show up and hope for the best.

In the top picture of our motorhome, can you see the hole?  Bob is still determined to get it repaired.