Missouri Travel

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Flying Southwest Airlines
From Santa Ana, California, to Kansas City, Missouri
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Dinner At Asado In The Hampton Inn
Near Kansas City Airport (MCI)
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Aragomi Urban Winery, Kansas City, Missouri
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

KC Wine Works, Kansas City, MO
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Lunch At Casual Animal, Kansas City, MO
Tom Anderson, Barbara & Stephen
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Enjoying Whiskey's At "Tom's Place" (Not Tom Anderson)
Tom Anderson & Stephen
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

J Creek Vineyard & Winery
In The Kansas City Outskirts, Missouri
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Lunch at Western Brewing Co.,
In The Kansas City Outskirts, Missouri
Tom Anderson, Barbara & Stephen
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Pirtle Winery,
In THe Kansas City Outskirts, Missouri
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Dinner At Apple Basket Cafe, Macon, Missouri
Tom, Barbara & Stephen
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Skullsplitter Spirits Distillery
Cooper's Oak Winery No Longer Operating
Higbee, Missouri
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Lunch At Beckett's Restaurant
Glasgow, Missouri
Friday, October 7, 2022

Beckett's Winery Glasgow, Missouri
Friday, October 7, 2022

Les Bourgeois Vineyards
Rocheport, Missouri Friday, October 7, 2022

The A-Frame Winegarden

The Blufftop Bistro & The Terrace

The Tasting Room

Canterbury Hill Winery & Restaurant,
Holts Summit, Missouri
Friday, October 7, 2022

Westphalia Vineyards
Westphalia, Missouri
Friday, October 7, 2022

Dinner At Big Whiskey's American Restaurant
Jefferson City, Missouri
Friday, October 7, 2022

Adam Puchta Winery
Hermann, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Downtown Hermann, Missouri
A Major Local Tourist Area
Saturday, October 8, 2022

White Mule Winery, Bed & Breakfast
Owensville, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Wenwood Farm Winery,
Bland, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Prairie Barn Winery
Saint James, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

St. James Winery
Saint James, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Meramec Vineyards
Saint James, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Dottie's Family Restaurant
(At A Major Truck Stop)
Cuba, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

ElderBlossom View
New Bloomfield, Missouri
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Photos Of Our Land
Silver Rails Properties LLC
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Hummingbird Vineyard and Winery
Mexico, Missouri
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Dinner At Colton's Steak House & Grill
Kirksbille, Missouri
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Dinner At Mi Casa Mexican Restaurant
Kirksville, Missouri
Tom, Barbara & Stephen
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Business Visit to Les Bourgeois Vineyards
Rocheport, Missouri Wednesday, October 12, 2022

First, A Tasting Of 8 Of Their Wines

Quick Tour Of Part Of Their Huge Winery

Sample Bottles Of Wines For Purchase Consideration

We decided to buy cases of 6 different wines from this winery to sell them at our winery under a method called "Private Label". We will sell the wines at our Silver Rails Winery with our own "Silver Rails Vineyards" name on the labels under what we name each wine. This is so we can jump start the Silver Rails Winery while we are waiting for the grapes from our own vineyard to age and become ready to be bottled and sold.

We were given these 11 bottles of wine for free so that we could sample them at our leisure and decide which 6 of them we will select to sell at our own winery.

Lunch at Cracker Barrel Restaurant
Columbia, Missouri
Tom, Barbara & Stephen
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

A Side Trip To Iowa

Our vineyards are probably the most northern vineyards in Missouri and are thus subject to the coldest weather in the state. We decided to head a couple of hours furthern north to see how well the vineyards and wineries in Iowa are doing.

Dutch Country General Store
Bloomfield, Iowa
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Cedar Valley Winery
Batavia, Iowa
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Herschel Winery In A Historic Stone House
Donneilson, Iowa
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Dinner At Lakeside Dining & Deck
Overlooking Beautiful Forest Lake
Thousand Hills State Park, Kirksville, Missouri
Tom, Barbara & Stephen
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Countryside Market, Kirksville, Missouri
Friday, October 14, 2022

Jam Trak is a jam made locally in La Plata, Missouri. We met the person that makes this jam many years ago when he had a vendor table at "A Taste Of Silver Rails Country", an event that we held at the "Silver Rails Event Center" to showcase the wines of northeast Missouri. We loved the idea of this jam as it is railroad themed and made right in the town of our ventures, La Plata, Missouri. The person that makes this jam now works in this Countryside Market store and his jams are sold in this store. We purchased some to take home as gifts for others and some for ourselves.

Our jam is made in small open kettle batches with no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, just like your grandmother used to make. We love it on warm biscuits, hot oatmeal or on our peanut butter sandwiches.

Jam Trak is located in the small railroad town of La Plata, Missouri. La Plata is Spanish for "The Silver," which we think is fitting to describe the rails. The main track between Chicago and Kansas City runs through La Plata."

Princess Emporium, Kirksville, Missouri
Friday, October 14, 2022

West Winery, Macon, Missouri
Friday, October 14, 2022

Dinner At Kababesh Grill, Kirksville, Missouri
Authentic Indian & Pakistani Cuisine
Tom, Barbara & Stephen
Friday, October 14, 2022

This is the ONLY Indian Restaurant probably within 100 miles of this area. They featured a lunch and dinner buffet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The buffet had a good number of items, more than most restaurants in Southern California ever since the lockdowns. The taste was also quite good.

La Plata Lake
Swimming, Fishing, Boating, Campsite, Playground, Picnic Area
Sunday, October 16, 2022

La Plata 18 Hole Golf Course
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Dinner At La Pa Mexican Restaurant
Kirksville, Missouri
Tom, Barbara & Stephen
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Mock Up Of Winery Billboard Designed By Tom Anderson
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Our Southwest Airlines Flight
From Kansas City, Missouri to Orange County, California, via Oakland
Celebrating The Birthday Of A 6 Year Old On The Flight
By Turning On All The Call Buttons Instead Of Candles
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Silver Rails Vineyards & Winery

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