The next day we set off to drive to St Joseph to visit the Pony Express museum. We spent a few enjoyable hours in St Joseph and we were all greeted by a very excited curator, as we were the first Aussies that had visited the museum.
Our visit was just over 2 hours.
Painted chair of a rider on the pony express.
Donors wall of fame.
After our visit we had a walk through the street and park, some great murals were painted on the walls.
A mural of the pony express
Of course there had to be a quilt.
After our farewells to our host in the museum we travelled to Indepenence to visit the Frontier museum.
This was a well set up museum, depicting how the first frontiers settled in the Wild West.
Wagons used in the Oregon trail.
Jim Bridger statue, he was a scout.
After our visit, the group visited Joanes, a craft store, a little like spotlight and dinner at Cracker Barrel.
Staying in Cameron was not a good choice, as we were isolated and not much choice for dining.
The next day we dropped our late arrivals to the tour, into Hamilton so that they may visit Missouri Star and we set of to Chillicothe. A town with many murals
As like all towns in these isolated parts of USA, they consist of one street. This was my first Op shop find and a few goodies purchased.
Cheap cake tins, a bargain for for 25cents each, of course my stars had to make it way into my suitcase, as well as some antique scissors and foldable ruler.
Main street of Chillicothe.
We had a full day, exploring and on the way out of Chillicothe we noticed a quilt store, again as we were a bunch of Aussies and quite a few of us, the owners called in the whole family to help serve us and we're very excited that we had travelled so far and was in their shop.
Tomorrow we leave Cameron and head to St. Louis.
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