This is the entrance to Marvel Cave in the Missouri Ozarks. See that tower at the top? That's how you get in. You walk down in from the top. Is that cool or what?
Missouri has more caves and more wineries than any other state.
I was once driving with my girlfriend through Mansfield MO, which is where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived most of her life, and there was a little winery off the highway called the Gloria Winery.
She wanted to buy a bottle of wine because her mom is named Gloria, so we stopped.
The parking was on a gravel lot, and the sign said, "Honk horn." So we did.
It was an older couple living in a trailer, and the vinyard was maybe half an acre. They bottled everying in a small modern steel shed.
The woman said, "We don't make much money but we're happy." It was her and her husband and their little dog.
We bought a bottle of white wine. Good stuff, too.
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