Back to Norwood

We have our GPS set to guide us to Marquette, Kansas which I thought may be a good area to meet the others who are currently in Branson, Missouri. However we found out that they are remaining in Branson, Missouri for another day. we have been to Branson before so we decide we will go back to Norwood to our friends Tom & Vicki's house and spend the night there in the house with air conditioning. Tom is still in the hospital and Vicki is on the road but they have a key hidden outside. They have already told us to feel free to stop by and stay there anytime. We cross over the river to Illinois by Cairo and expect to turn south and cross again into Missouri. But the bridge was closed probably from damage by the recent high waters so we detour through Cairo to the next bridge and into Missouri. We were in 3 different states in less than 10 minutes. We went straight to Norwood and arrived at the Mooney's house. But their son had been by and forgot to replace the outside key. So we returned to a campground alongside Highway 60 where there was a swimming pool and showers. The pool felt really good as did the shower but the weather was still ot and sticky so we did not sleep as well as we would have liked. The trucks on the highway never stopped traveling all night long and across the highway are train tracks and they too were busy all night. We will meet Doug and Patsi at the hospital at 7:30 AM tomorrow, visit Tom for awhile and then head to Kansas to catch up with the others.