Marceline and Then South
Late posting this. Have been without internet connection for a few days.
Our planned route took us past Marceline, MO so we stopped off to see the remains of Walt Disney’s Dreaming Tree. This was our third visit to the site where Walt Disney grew up. His Dreaming Tree was a very large and very old tree that he used to sit under as a child and dream/imagine. The first time we saw it the tree was quite sick and partially rotted but still had some living structure with foliage. The second time we were there the tree was still standing but totally dead and rotting. We heard that the tree had been blown down several months ago and that is the case. The way grass and bushes grow in Missouri you can hardly see the remains of the rotting trunk.
Fortunately, several years ago, when the tree was still viable, seeds were taken and a “Son of Dreaming Tree” was propagated. It is planted nearby and is doing well.
A little further beyond the Dreaming Tree is a recreation of the barn on the family farm from Disney’s childhood.
Walt Disney had many happy memories of the barn and recreated it on his property in California. That barn he used as a studio/workshop. It became the birthplace of Disney Imagineering. The inside of the barn in Marceline is covered with signatures and messages to Walt written by fans and admirers. Every surface, flat, curved, high, low, window sill and frame, oxbow frame, barrel, door jamb, bench, rafter, and on and on is covered so thoroughly that new writings have to go over those too faded to read.
Leaving Marceline we headed south through Jefferson City and about sixty miles further.
State Capitol building
Missouri is green everywhere.
Tomorrow we hope to enter Tennessee.
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