Two damaged lives, a yellow truck, an open road, and a life we never could have imagined.
Last month, I mentioned we had met a couple, Randy and Kayla, who owned a vegetable stand located on a busy highway in Southwest Missouri. They wanted us to set up and sell from their property. We did spend time with them on our trips through the area and met some very interesting people while we were there.
The area we were in was known for coon hunting. In fact, the area across the highway was used for coon hunting competition. Or, at least, it was at one time. One day, there were several helicopters above the woods and men repelling from them. The coon hunting association (for the sake of a better description) had banned the area from being used for hunts because it started to be used by people to grow marijuana and they protected their crop with a vengeance. The men repelling from the helicopters were law enforcement going in to clear out the fields and the people protecting them.
An interesting husband and wife that lived locally stopped by one day and spent time visiting. I had heard of cave dwellers that lived long ago, but never from the present time. This woman’s family had lived in a cave in the area. She was actually born in a cave. It is hard to comprehend people living that way today, but it was done an ...
