We say goodbye to Missourah

. . . with a fond glance back at our hotel, the Raphael, a lovely old hotel situated just across the water from a Mission style shopping complex called The Country Club Plaza. It's a few miles from downtown, but a very nice place to stay with plenty of park and open space for the wanderer. I did a little shopping while the spouse treated himself to a golf outing and I spent some time strolling along the water and sitting in the sun reading an Arkansas military sharpshooter mystery/thriller. We were in for a long day of driving through amber fields of last year's stubble.