ShareIf you’ve ever tried to get a cell signal or decent internet speed in Traveler Country, you know we live in that “blank” part of the coverage map. Low population and rugged terrain make it both technically difficult and not particularly profitable to bring such coverage to rural Missouri.
FARMINGTON, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon [...]

ShareBy Tom Uhlenbrock
Missouri State Parks
MIAMI, Mo. – Wave after wave of migrating waterfowl moved in V formations across the winter sky on this late afternoon. The landscape below of marsh, wet prairie and forest known as the Oumessourit Natural Area was filled with the cries of Canada geese, snow geese and ducks. A bald eagle [...]

ShareOne of the hallmarks of rural living is growing up working on a family farm. Farm kids have always grown up faster than city kids out of necessity: kids have always been expected to take on responsibilities in caring for animals, crops and fellow family members generally earlier than those who live in town.
The [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
One of the most remote areas of Missouri is Douglas County. Just to the west of Willow Springs, one tier up from the more touristy Ozark County along the North Fork just before it runs into the White River, Douglas County is hilly, forested, and remote.
This area isn’t a tourist destination. [...]

ShareThere are some things one simply never expects to do in one’s life.
By Jo Schaper
Meeting Governor Jay and First Lady Georgeanne Nixon whilst wearing jeans, a caver T-shirt and a caving helmet, setting up, running kid tours and crawling around in a portable cave on the Missouri Governor’s Mansion lawn, helping to cycle 337 [...]

ShareRoadside Geology of Missouri
Charles G. Spencer Mountain Press
978-0-87842-573-0
274 pages $20.00
Reviewed by Jo Schaper
When I heard that Charles Spencer (whom I don’t think I know…maybe I do) had written Roadside Geology of Missouri I had an immediate twinge of regret.
Back in the 1980s I had investigated what it took to write such an addition [...]

ShareThe central Missouri hay artists are at it again.
This hay bale sculpture (?) is located on Missouri Hwy. 42 in Iberia, Missouri just west of Missouri Hwy. 17.