Wyoming Trip (May-Jun 2025)

I'm a little late getting my trip report written up (had trailer
repair/maintenance issues to deal with), so I hope my memory now
doesn't let me down too badly.  I'll try to write up a day or two
each day.  Here's the first.

Day 1 was driving west, made it into the northeast corner of
Missouri.  En route I kept noticing the Acadia reporting mileage
in the 15-16 mpg  range, but finally realized there were pretty
good winds out of the east.  Had not appreciated how much of a
difference it might make. 

The commercial campground just outside of Kahoga, MO was pretty
new, the sites were topped with fresh gravel but were pretty soft
underneath.  Just driving and backing the trailer on it made ruts. 
No bath house, but otherwise an okay campground.
We had started relatively early in the day, so had some time to
look around after arriving.  We settled on a side trip to the
Battle of Athens State Historic Site...

https://mostateparks.com/park/battle-athens-state-historic-site

It was not a big park, but had very interesting interpretive
signs.  Apparently this was the “northernmost battle fought west
of the Mississippi” in the Civil War and “about 500 Union soldiers
repelled nearly four times their number of pro-Southern State
Guardsmen.”  Interesting to see illustrations of the divisions
across small areas-—and even within families.

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA