Tornado Alley (4-7-11)

     The last few days we've been traveling through "Tornado Alley".  We started in Louisiana, drove through part of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and we are now in Missouri.  We stopped for an extra night in Oklahoma because the weather forecast called for potential thunderstorms and high winds, with the possibility of a tornado thrown in there.  We decided it wasn't worth getting on the road.  We were at a Core of Engineers campground at Lake Eufaula, which was a very peaceful place to stay for a night or two.  From there we drove through Kansas and we are now in Lake of the Ozarks State Park for a couple of days.  Our ultimate goal is to get to Indiana by next week, where we'll spend about a month hanging out with our daughter. Many of the campgrounds aren't even open yet, which reminded me that its still pretty early in the year, and we are definately heading north.
   We've been doing a lot of driving,  and we were ready for some down time, so we haven't done anything too exciting.  We did drive through Paris TX to check out the "great pie" they have there, but it turned out Paul remembered the name of the town wrong, so there was no great pie.  Oh well.
Tomorrow we are going on a 9 mile hike. I am really looking forward to getting  some exercise.