Our stay at the Downstream Casino, cost less than $10 dollars. How? Well simple. First locate a spot, go inside to the Electronic Players Card Machine and get a card. Go to the store or counter inside casino. Fill out form. Each card gets a free night. Spend $20 using the card get $10 to spend at the casino. Stay 2 nights, get the 3rd for $15. The $10 we spent? Well that was playing the slots.
If you are a PassPort American, cost $17.50 / night.
50 Amp service and water at site. Common dump, easy access to everything.
Our short drive was met with a sign stating - Traffic at a Stand Still - What? As Susan was driving, I started looking to find out what was going on and a route around. Traffic on Missouri DOT and Google traffic, showed both West and East bounds lanes on I-44 stopped. Learned this was do to an accident. Big one.
Began north of Conway, Mo. and Lebanon, Mo. That is a distance of 20 miles. Think of it 20 miles of traffic at a stand still.
Armed with a laptop, and Google Maps and a GPS, I went in search of a route around the standing traffic.
There is was local roads leading east of Conway, then heading north of Lebanon, where we got back onto the Freeway.
Some people would just have driven straight into the jammed traffic. In an MH, simple, we have our own home. However, due to the amount of vehicles on the road, it would have been an 8 hour trip for 150 miles. Another adventure with DaGirls.
NEAR LEBANON, Mo. (KY3) - MoDOT reopened I-44 near Lebanon around 12:30 p.m. after a morning crash shut down the interstate.
The crash happened in the eastbound lanes of I-44 near mile marker 125 around 10:30 a.m. The crash blocked both lanes of traffic.
Lanes of the interstate stayed closed for about two hours.
You can think about this, 2 hours of stopped traffic. Think of all the cars traveling 1 way, 60 - 75 Mph. Not stopping or reading signs. Boom, complete stoppage. Then there are the vehicles trying to get around. Getting nowhere. As there is no place to get off. Then think, a vehicle in front of you moves. 5mph. 18 miles of this at 5 mph until the road opens in front of you.
We were glad of our detour, and how quick we got around and back onto the Interstate.
Let's get back to Joplin and Route 66, the best part, it was Sunday and no traffic.
Ok, that about wraps up this adventure - it was a wild one as you have read.
Susan, Tilly, Dakota and me
DaGirls Rv and Gus
No comments:
Post a Comment