ShareTraveler friend and newly elected Eminence mayor, Jim Anderson, posted this on his Facebook page. Not sure where he got it, but it needed a wider audience. The message is quintessential Traveler Country. Take a look. Thanks.

ShareScientists have confirmed bees have distinct personalities; distinguish between human faces; can find the shortest distance between two points faster than any computer; have moods, and now have a parasitic fly that leaves them like zombies.
Even though a lot of money is being invested in research, bees continue to die in record numbers. Between immigrant [...]

ShareWe haven’t had a good poll in while. The recommendations for Missouri State Parks to “Camp Smart” and conserve energy are good ideas, but I can’t say that any of them apply to me, because, even past the half-century mark, I’ve never camped in anything more high tech that beneath the camper shell (and [...]

ShareIn the wake of last year’s massive flooding, (and because it was due, anyway), the St. Louis District of the Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a lake drawdown, and gatehouse and spillway inspection at Wappapello Lake.
This drawdown (the Lake is currently at 354.24 as of 4 p.m. 3/7/12) is to permit ACE personnel [...]

Share“The park’s draft General Management Plan (GMP) continues to be reviewed by the National Park Service’s Denver Service Center and the Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, Nebraska,” said interim Supertintendent Bill Black. “The process is taking longer than we anticipated.”
This news comes via the Riverways Record, a monthly email newsletter the park is now [...]

ShareThe state of Missouri has put a Trout Cam out there at Bennett Spring State Park:
Enjoy!

ShareThree natural resource items came to our attention over the weekendYou might like to check them out.

St. Louis Today had an article in the February 26 paper reporting on a benefit race run through the Crystal City Underground, the abandoned St. Peter sandstone mines under Crystal City.Dubbed “sperunking,” this is an obstacle course as [...]

ShareMuskie Fishing, I Did Not Know That
Walter Krause • Walter’s Guide Service
66 p. $14.95 • $16.13 w/tax • $19.63 w/tax and shipping
Soft Cover No Illustrations

Muskie Fishing, I Did Not Know That is a slim manual from a Southern Illinois expert fishing guide. It concentrates on one thing: the how-to thrill of [...]

ShareWhen I was a kid, we had this book series called “Through Golden Windows.” They were a collection of short stories, essays and poetry, some classic and well-known authors, some not, but that’s what probably got me first interested in literature (and what would happen if a field full of popcorn caught on [...]

ShareJo’s been working too hard, so I sent her to bed early with some really good cough syrup. I’m not supposed to be on the computer, but she forgot to shut it off.
I’ve got a secret to tell you.
If you go to Cape Girardeau THIS WEEKEND on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, to the [...]