St. Charles, MO The Greatest Camping Trip Ever

Yesterday we began our Lewis and Clark Trip here in St. Charles, MO. This has been said to be The Greatest Camping Trip Ever! We had orientation in the afternoon with our 35 guests and Bill & Carol Hamilton, our friends since 1972, who are going to be our tailgunners. We have a total of 21 RVs and 39 people. We have 3 single women!

That evening we had a delicious dinner in the banquet room here at the campground and had two guest speakers in full costume. They were from the Discovery Expedition for the Bicentennial Reenactment of the Lewis & Clark Expedition from 2005 – 2006. It was hard for us to believe that a band of men in their 50s (the average age for the original expedition was 27) reenacted the entire L&C trip! It was exciting to hear their stories! Each person in the expedition portrayed someone from the original expedition. They stopped at schools all along the way to educate children about L&C.

Today a trolley came to our campground and took us to downtown St. Charles for their Heritage Days Celebration. We started with a tour of the first State Capitol of Missouri with a retired school teacher who took us back to the 1800s. At 11 the Parade started down Main Street with people dressed in period costumes.

We then toured the L&C Boat House and Nature Center where we saw replicas of their boats. We walked along the river to the encampment that had 100s of people in period costumes living in tents as they did in the 1800s.

From 5-16 St. Charles, MO