One of my more recent goals during traveling is to photograph the sign at all of the major U.S. colleges and universities. That is around 200 of them. To get all of them in a 300-mile radius of Kansas City, several weekend trips were taken. This is to record the results of those weekend trips with the colleges in Missouri.

I had previously taken a weekend trip to get all of the Missouri colleges along I-70 through the center of the state. Additionally, I went to Springfield and Joplin last year to photograph on the campuses there. And, of course, getting the schools in Kansas City metro area was simple. That left the center and the four corners: cental for Rolla, SE for Cape Girardeau, NE for Kirksville, NW for Maryville and St. Joseph, and SW Neosho. The June 2017 weekend trip got that latter one: Crowder College in Neosho. I might have missed this one had our Toastmasters district not had a club officer training session there a few years ago. If I had known then to photograph college campus signs, I could have crossed that one off earlier. The NW two were done along with the Iowa-South Dakota-Nebraska trip. Kirksville done with the Illinois-Iowa-Missouri trip. The remaining two with the trip to Tennessee- Kentucky-Georgia-Florida. Takes much planning to get them all, something I am finally doing and if I had planned better decades ago, this project would almost be done.

The October trip was only for Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State) in Kirksville. I might have been through Kirksville once many years ago but do not remember when, much less specifics.

The fall leaf color in Kansas City was pretty dull this year. But as I got east of Cameron on Highway 36 I noticed lots of beautiful fall colors. A surprise, at least to my memory, was I thought that highway 36 had a speed limit of 70 but it was only 65. On the other hand, highway 63 going north from Macon to Kirksville was 70 mph. Strange. I noticed that there are many smelly trucks in northweast Missouri.

As I drive east from Macon towards Hannibal, there was an absolutely incredible looking sunset in my rearview mirror for about 45 minutes. Quite possibly the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen over flat land (vs. water or mountains). It would have been great to be able to take photos of it. A car's rearview mirror needs a camera built in!