Here's my story! We left Colorado on Sunday and started our trek for Indiana. Stopped for an hour or so to join in Zoom birthday party for Aeri. Drove on for a long day of driving all the way to Garden City, Kansas. Was a good drive all the way through lots of variety of Agriculture. Wide open country, biggest cattle feed lots ever, dry land farming to irrigation, oil and gas drilling. . interesting. But we got into town late and ended up at RJ's RV park. Probably our worst experience of RV park in memory. But we were too tired to go on. . .however, the longer we were there the worse it got. Wifi not working, bathrooms disgustingly filthy, ( didn't have to use it as we are self contained) pool broken and empty (not that we would have used it,) AND we parked under a tree so that branches touched top of camper. (Our fault, however. . .) So when wind and rain came up over night those branches were beating the camper and keeping us awake. So here we are at 1:30 in the morning, outside in rain, moving RV ahead several feet to get away from tree. Now, back in bed and wide awake and trying to sleep!
Next morning we left really early, couldn't sleep in--and drove all day again. Cloudy day, could see dark clouds in east and north east and knew someone getting rained on hard, although we only had a few minutes of showers.
We are driving pretty directly to Bloomington but still avoid interstates and big cities. Find the country side more relaxing and interesting and many times better roads. Some of our nation's interstate highways are in bad shape!
So we planned to cross into Missouri south of St Joseph and find our way to Hiway 59 and the bridge at Atchison, Kansas. Crossed just fine but did notice a lot ( a lot) of standing water. All good and suddenly we come upon road closed sign and dumped us off in small town. Thank goodness for Google Maps and GPS to get us through some pretty small country roads and on through to arranged RV park. Apparently ( we found out later) levey broke and South St Jo flooded and hiway 59 under water! (See article). We had no clue.
Rained most all night but we were high and dry. Such a nice country place that we lingered a while before leaving this morning. This RV park was one of the nicest in recent memory!! And same price, btw!!
Driving today across Missouri we could again see storm clouds on the horizon but actually only drove in rain maybe 1/2 hour. Tonight we are near Springfield, Illinois. Got here early enough in the day that we thought we could drive into town and at least visit Abraham Lincoln's birth home. Made it to the National Historic Site and the sky opened up and rained cats and dogs!! Didn't get a chance to see much. By the time we got back to our KOA campground it stopped raining but not far from campground we came upon a tree that had blown over blocking over half the road. We were able to get around it but branchs down on the road all along. And power was was off at campground. We could as well be in a National forest as no TV or wifi. Must be a wide spread outage as about to go to bed and power hasn't come back on yet. And it's starting to rain again--just not so hard. At least it cooled down nicely, is a lovely summer evening.
Crossing the Missouri River
Breakfast at a little country cafe--you will notice the sign says "World Famous."
I am driving a bit today.
That downpour!
Screenshot of news report of flooding near St Joseph. 5 inches of rain is a lot!
That's Brandywine Falls, the Park's other most famous feature. 
To celebrate my 73'rd birthday, we did a 12 mile bike ride on the generally flat tow path trail. We brought our bikes along this summer but other than a turn around the campground, this was first time I used my bike. Was a workout but so scenic and felt good. 
