Lexington,Big Lake and Indian Cave

Hi everyone, it's been a while since my last post but I am ready to get started again.  Spring is almost here and we are starting to plot our camping trips.  Mother Nature is trying to fool us into starting early, but I know she is just fooling us.  It can get pretty cold in March and April.  If it looks like the weather will be nice for several days in a row then we will head out.  First we  have to check out the pop-up to see if everything made it through this winter okay.  I have all confidence that it did since we have had such a mild winter.  Heck there are several time we could have camped.  We have camped down to 48 degrees at night.  Wasn't too bad.  Our heater kept us pretty warm and along with the blankets we did fine.

We have taken a couple of day trips in the past 2 weeks.  One to Lexington,MO to the State Historical Site.  The other to Big Lake State Park in Missouri and Indian Cave State Park in Nebraska.No camping just touring.

Here are some pictures from Lexington.  Lots of pretty old houses.  Of course when we were there we had a Maid rite.  I like mine better but did bring back lots of memories.

Our second trip took us to Big Lake State Park in Northern Missouri.  Just down the road from Mound City.  I apologize for the clarity of the pictures.  I am not certain what happened.  Big Lake is an Ox Bow lake.  It has residential houses around it and then the State Park with camping and cabins.  The day we were there one camper only. We must have arrived the same day the black birds and red winged black birds were migrating through.  There was thousands of birds.  The noise was so loud.  If you were camping it would be very hard to sleep.  I have never seen that many red winged black birds in one place.From there we traveled west to Indian Cave State Park in Nebraska.  No camping at Indian Cave but they did have a cave(notched out area in rocks where the water had washed it out over many years).  They also had an overlook of the Missouri River.  They also had a few places to pick-nick.We had a nice trip.

 The following are the pictures I took.  Sorry about the quality. I hope the video comes thru.  I want you to hear the noise.

                                                  

One of our first camping trips this spring will be to the Jefferson City, Missouri area.  We plan to take several days to sight see in the area, so if anyone has ideas of where to eat, places to visit we would appreciate the information.  We do plan on seeing the Capitol, and Museum.  I need to do some more research before we take out.  I hope you enjoy the pictures and little bit of information we have given you.  The State Park at Big Lake is nice.  Well kept, and the the rangers were very helpful.

Until we meet again.

Happy Camping