Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 80 Sunday, May 20, 2007

Platte City, Missouri to Scott AFB, Ill – 300+ Miles (via a Maifest in Hermann, Missouri)

Today we headed out for Scott AFB just east of St Louis, Missouri.  However, we did make a slight detour to stop by a Maifest in Hermann, Missouri.  This detour proved to be stressful initially and then interesting later.

En route to Hermann we came to a very narrow bridge that crossed the Missouri River into Hermann.  I took the call and went to scout the bridge and determined that it would be very tight driving the RV over it with the very narrow lanes and the on coming traffic to be concerned about.  So, rather than risk an incident, we decided to park the RV at a gas station, unhook the car and just drive the Honda over the bridge to the Maifest.  This is when the stress really kicked into high gear… We had just rearranged things in the Honda putting down a blanket in the back seat for Lucy when we discovered that Lucy was missing and no where to be found!!!!!!!!  Sylvia was in a frantic state of mind now… she told me that she had noticed a blue van that stopped in the parking lot near the RV; a man got out and opened the sliding rear door and a short time later drove off!  After whistling and looking frantically for Lucy we quickly came to the conclusion that this guy in the blue van had dog napped Lucy and we were in a major panic to say the least!   There was a motorcycle club group leaving the gas station… Sylvia quickly stopped them explaining the situation and they said they would look for the “blue van” along the route they were traveling and if they found it would check to see if Lucy could be found; so, off they went.

Sylvia and I continued to look all over for Lucy…. Finally after us almost giving up, Lucy came out from behind the gas station with her head down and tail between her legs!  She knew she was in trouble; however, we were so glad to see her that we totally did not want to scold her for her wandering off.  It just drove home the point that we have to be more careful when we let Lucy out of the RV…. There are a lot of strange people out there who would think nothing of stealing our sweet Lucy dog.

After we calmed down, Sylvia and I and Lucy drove over that narrow bridge and went to the Maifest in Hermann.  We walked the town and had some wine and ate dinner at one of the Wineries.  This was very enjoyable and reminded us of our times in Germany going to winefests.

Later we drove on to Scott AFB, another 100 miles or so, set up in the camp ground and made it an early night.

posted by Richard @ 11:49 PM