Saturday, June 11, 2011
Cheri June-10-11
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We were up and ready to go to Stewart’s Restaurant down on the Bagnell Dam strip by 8:30am. That is the home of the famous huge Cinnamon Roll. We ordered one of those to share. It put us on a sugar high for the morning.
While we were sitting there in the restaurant, Gay saw a deer run across the road right there in town!
We needed to revisit the Willmore Lodge Museum at the dam. We didn’t have our camera with us the first time.
The logs for the Lodge were cut and assembled into a lodge in Oregon, before being shipped to Missouri. Once the lodge was inspected, it was dismantled, numbered and transported by train to its present site. It was built in 3 months in 1930 at a total cost of $135,000 and used by the Union Electric Co as an administrative & entertainment center. Its 29 rooms are held together by wooden pegs. It now houses the museum of the history of this area and the building of the dam. There is a beautiful view of the lake from the big picture window in the main room.
We then revisited the Bagnell Dam overlook. The Dam project created a man-made lake with a shoreline rivaling that of Lake Michigan’s in length and spawned a new economy of tourism in Central Missouri. Bagnell Dam was the largest and last major dam in America built entirely with private capitol with a final price of $30 million. It took 2 years to complete.
We took a drive down by the base of the dam. It was quite impressive. You could see all the fish hook and lines snagged on the wires by the dam.
We stopped at Wal-Mart to fuel up and headed back home to throw the sheets in the washing machine and then were on our way again.
We were in search of another swinging bridge. We turned on a dirt road, went a total of 8 miles, but didn’t find the bridge. We did see another deer that jumped out into the road ahead of us and almost had a head on crash with a road grader coming at us around a corner on our side of the road. That was scary! It made a mess of the roads and made it hard to maneuver the bike on the gravel roads.
We got back on Hwy 42 and tried again but NO BRIDGE ROAD. No more swinging bridges for us!
We decided to try a BBQ place called Woobly Boots for dinner. Gay loves BBQ ribs and we had skipped lunch saving ourselves for those ribs and pulled pork meals.
Gay has uploaded pictures of the day, click here http://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravelsthen click on the album you want to look at, there is two new albums for today: Bagnell Dam and Museum, Lake of the Ozarks car show.
While we were sitting there in the restaurant, Gay saw a deer run across the road right there in town!
We needed to revisit the Willmore Lodge Museum at the dam. We didn’t have our camera with us the first time.
The logs for the Lodge were cut and assembled into a lodge in Oregon, before being shipped to Missouri. Once the lodge was inspected, it was dismantled, numbered and transported by train to its present site. It was built in 3 months in 1930 at a total cost of $135,000 and used by the Union Electric Co as an administrative & entertainment center. Its 29 rooms are held together by wooden pegs. It now houses the museum of the history of this area and the building of the dam. There is a beautiful view of the lake from the big picture window in the main room.
We then revisited the Bagnell Dam overlook. The Dam project created a man-made lake with a shoreline rivaling that of Lake Michigan’s in length and spawned a new economy of tourism in Central Missouri. Bagnell Dam was the largest and last major dam in America built entirely with private capitol with a final price of $30 million. It took 2 years to complete.
We took a drive down by the base of the dam. It was quite impressive. You could see all the fish hook and lines snagged on the wires by the dam.
We stopped at Wal-Mart to fuel up and headed back home to throw the sheets in the washing machine and then were on our way again.
We were in search of another swinging bridge. We turned on a dirt road, went a total of 8 miles, but didn’t find the bridge. We did see another deer that jumped out into the road ahead of us and almost had a head on crash with a road grader coming at us around a corner on our side of the road. That was scary! It made a mess of the roads and made it hard to maneuver the bike on the gravel roads.
We got back on Hwy 42 and tried again but NO BRIDGE ROAD. No more swinging bridges for us!
We decided to try a BBQ place called Woobly Boots for dinner. Gay loves BBQ ribs and we had skipped lunch saving ourselves for those ribs and pulled pork meals.
What a disappointment. Gay’s ribs were tuff and tasted like they had been lying around for a while. My pulled pork had no flavor and very little sauce. We had baked beans for a side and I could only eat half of mine. This restaurant is definitely off our list.
The Bagnell Dam Strip car show started at 6pm. We made our way there, found a parking place and were off looking at the cars. Most were parked in the center lane of the highway and the rest along the side of the road.
We had a favorite of the bunch of course. It was a little 1934-35 Chevy truck. They were 75 cars in all. 20 of them were corvettes.
We took a break at Grandpa’s Ice Cream Shop and had ice cream. It was another disappointment. The ice cream had no flavor.
The clouds were gathering and they had predicted rain for some time tonight so we headed home.
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