July 24th – 26th – Kirksville, MO

Kirksville is a small town in northern Missouri, a state where all the secondary highways are named with letters! Like Kansas, Missouri’s highway system is fairly grid-like, making navigation easy. We continued to follow the heat-wave. Although the air temperature was dropping (it was only about 100 F), the humidity was rising!



Here, we were visiting Maria (Toby’s college friend), Eric and their nearly-two-year-old Andrew. As with Toby’s other friends, Maria and Eric were wonderful hosts! And Andrew was sweet, constantly babbling to himself. Toby and I could only understand a few of his words, most of which involved trucks; “dump truck” and “fire truck” were his favourites! Eric and Maria are both chemistry profs at Truman State University, and Toby had a tour of their labs and the university the next day, while I slept in and relaxed in their lovely, quiet home. Did I mention they have 4 cats? All were friendly and affectionate. There were also several fish tanks in the home, so I was entertained the entire day.




We had yet another BBQ. I love summers for the BBQ-ed food! Yum! And had another wonderful evening of chatting and laughing!

The next morning, Toby and I headed northward into Iowa.