Heading west

After leaving Mississippi Palisades state park we headed to Missouri via the southeast corner of Iowa. After looking at the map we decided to stay at a state park just inside the Missouri border called Battle of Athens state park. It was the site of a battle during the Civil war in 1861 and the town has been saved as a historic site and they had a real nice little campground just outside the town. We just stayed the nite as we were on the way to our friends house near Milan, MO. We were the only ones in the campground other than the wild turkeys that were all over the place and a lot of loud insects. This is a big year for cicadas and there were also lots of lightning bugs in the area.