Road Trip (back)

There were also sights to see on the way back.

Mort Walker went to college at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. A few years back a statue of his creation, Beetle Bailey, was built there. It may be a bit odd to see Beetle in his college outfit. The comic strip started as a college comic at a time when a fairly small percentage of the population went to college. It wasn't popular enough for the syndicate to keep so after six months or so Mort had Beetle join the military as the Korean War got going. Somehow he just never left the military, or the 50s.


It was too bloody cold to see the Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail, but as we drove along I-70 we saw a single, rather wide column of steam out on the horizon. From time to tim I could see a nuclear reactor in the distance. We used the GPS to look at the surrounding roads, made a guess as to how to get there, and took off on a network of snow packed dirt roads to find it. We pulled it off, too.

It's the Gallaway Nuclear Generating Station in the Reform Conservation Area.
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