Video: Parks on the Road – Episode 3 (Branson to Galena)

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Branson has a giant chicken, a fake King Kong, and half of the Titanic sticking out of a building. We went and looked. Then we drove ten minutes down the road to a lake almost nobody mentions, and got Missouri on the air for the first time.

This leg was nothing but firsts — our first night on a working farm, our first night completely off-grid with no hookups, and the first Illinois park I’ve ever activated. That last one sits on bluffs above a river we’ve been driving toward for two weeks.

Parks on the Road is a year on the road in an RV, activating parks in every state along the way for Parks on the Air. New episodes every other week as we go.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 – This week ends on the Mississippi
0:05 – Branson, Missouri
3:13 – Table Rock State Park — first Missouri activation
3:36 – An interruption
4:47 – A farm in Pacific, Missouri
6:12 – Into Illinois
6:39 – The Lincoln Home and Lincoln’s tomb
7:31 – Galena, Illinois
8:19 – Blanding Landing, and no water hookup
10:39 – Trolley tour and Grant’s house
11:41 – Mississippi Palisades State Park — first Illinois activation
12:44 – The trip so far
13:06 – Two weeks with no address
13:50 – Where we’re headed next

THE NUMBERS
-Table Rock SP (US-1787) — 16 contacts, 9 states, 1 entity, farthest 1,600 miles to California
-Mississippi Palisades SP (US-1010) — 13 contacts, 11 states, 1 park-to-park, farthest 1,700 miles to Oregon
-Trip total — 8 parks, 4 states, 7 entities, 3 park-to-park, 100 contacts, farthest 5,500 miles to Argentina

GEAR IN THIS EPISODE
–Yaesu FT-710 radio
–Buddistick Pro antenna
–Bioenno BLF1215A battery
–Sony A6700 camera
–DJI Mini 5 Pro drone

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