Today's weather is gorgeous... sunny, big clouds and temps in the '60's !! We headed out after lunch since the wineries are only open from 1 to 6 pm on Sundays !
Our route was east on US route 24. We passed acres and acres of corn and soy beans. Some of the corn had been harvested... some was still drying. The corn is for silage, ethanol, corn syrup etc.... not for people eating for dinner!! The soy beans are still drying. When we got closer to the wineries there were huge apple orchards ... people picking too!
We stopped and tasted at two wineries.... One was a typical tasting. We were given a list of wines available and we chose 5 or 6. Our choices were poured into wine glasses and we sipped! Picked two we liked best and bought them. The second was really covid avoidance prepared. One picked a category of wine. We chose semi-sweet and apple. We were given a tray of covered plastic containers of samples labeled with numbers to take outside and try. So try we did... picked two using the numbers and the apple and bought them! Both wineries required masks and social distancing.
Our trip home we took the old road along the Missouri River and the train tracks ( carries loads of freight from at least Kansas City to St. Louis). I waved at one of the trains as it past us going East ! We drove through Lexington. Wellington and Napoleon ... river towns. Lexington was also the site of a Civil War Battle and one can still see cannon ball holes on some of the buildings.
BTW ... we had fun not following the Garmin lady's directions.... she did keep trying to get us to go her way!!
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We used to make fun of the trip adviser, too. "Figure out how we'll get you home now!"
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