into the woods

This afternoon we will load up and head to south central Missouri for a few days of R&R for the final trip of this season.  Our first stop is in Sutton Bluff Recreation Area which is a National Forest Service campground in Reynolds County.  When we lived in Rolla this was one of our favorite places to weekend camp away from the telephone and work.  It will be nice to go back for a few days.

Our cellphone is on the Verizon Wireless network which we have found to be the best coverage throughout the US in our travels.  That is not the case with this trip.  I have just checked the coverage maps for both Verizon and AT&T (which is our WiFi connection) and AT&T wins in this part of Missouri.

Here is the AT&T map that covers our whole trip.

and here is one showing the Sutton Bluff campground, the loop in the center

Here is the Verizon map of the area

 

and this is the Sutton Bluff area

After Sutton Bluff we then head into Wayne County and spend a few days in the Sam A Baker Missouri State Park.  We have never camped here before however we have driven through and thought it would be a good place to relax on this trip.  The AT&T map is fairly uniform for our whole trip and in this location so is Verizon.

The upper loops are the campground for this State Park

After Sam A Baker we then will move to the Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park which is back in Reynolds County.  Again AT&T seems to be okay but Verizon is going to be iffy.

In this map the campground looks to be in a white (non coverage) area but with red spots around the area we will just have to see when we get there.

It looks like I should be able to post to this blog for most of the trip and will just have to read voice mail whenever I can.