Day trip to Hermann and Swiss Missouri with perfect weather, gotta love it !

Where are we today ?

Lost Valley Lake Resort Owensville MO.

      Another great sleep last night and I thought I woke up at my usual time. My clock said 5:15 am perfect I thought. Got up, made coffee turned on my computer and the news from Ontario. Then about an hour later Suzie got up , Checked the time here in the Kitchen hmmm.. 5:15 am Guess I forgot to change my bedroom clock to the new time zone.  No problem we are morning people so got lotsa stuff done before the sun came up, just the way we like it. 

        About 7:30 I whipped to the Walmart in Owensville and picked up a few groceries. Back home before 9 am and Suzie had her shower and we can head on out.
         Today we want to go check out Hermann Missouri. There is 7 winery's ,1 distillery and 1 Micro brewery, wow we could spent days here ! Thats not our plan just want to check out the town. And it is a small town population 2,700 , now thats our style, no big cities for us. But it is a very touristy town too, Lotsa restaurants and gift shops. A lot of nice old buildings and German heritage is very prominent.

       The Tin Mill Brewery would have been nice to check out but not open yet. Maybe another time.

 Lots of German style pubs and restaurents.

Lewis and Clark crossed the Missouri river here in 1806

Amtrak train passing through town

Missouri River 

        Now to check out the Stone Hill Winery free tours and we arrived just as one was starting. The very interesting caverns(or whatever) for making and aging their wines. A very informative and interesting tour one of the best we have ever done.Tastings were offered at $5.00 per person but we passed, not really expensive wine drinkers. At 35 % exchange that would be over $13.00 Canadian just to sample their wines, besides it was 10:30 am.

interesting wine travel mug

lots f interesting wines here, but too expensive for us 

This is for the serious wine drinker,
Contessa you need one !

       Heading back home we had to stop at Swiss Sausage and Meats. We have been here a few times in the past and love all their products. We sampled lots and and enjoyed the tastings here, free! We like free.

           We did not leave empty handed as you can see below all chicken products except the Mini ham which is soo good, had it before.

stocking up again, but our freezer is only so big !

          Now heading back to camp, love the road names here all alphabet letters, our road is ZZ. Takes us to Lost Valley Lake. 

         Back home for lunch and did a load of laundry. Only had one load but how can you resist for only .75 cents to wash and .75 cents to dry. We good to go for a while again.
          With a beautiful sunny day and no wind we sat outside for a couple hours doing what we both enjoy, reading our e-readers, sure can't beat that, during our Happy hour.

        Of course while doing this fired up our Weber Q 100, grill a couple chicken thighs. Sure smells nice reading outside grilling chicken. Yep we love chicken.

the afternoon sun is going away but supper is done
time to head inside

2 acorn squash 1/4s and 2 chicken thighs

add a  fresh salad and did the trick

          That was our fun day relaxing and enjoy this wonderful weather and new places. Tomorrow back on the road heading west through Oklahoma and eventually southern Arizona at some point.

         Thanks for the visit and if you can find us drop on by. We friendly just take us as we are.

Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Fall and Winter..