Hi Tom, my sentiments exactly, We don't generally get to stay in the same place for more than one night, so the two nights made Joplin more memorable, especially so, with the early morning chase, the crazy golf and people I chatted to on the coffee run to Starbucks.
The thing that I have ringing in my head is the waitress in Outback who said nothing ever happens in Joplin and she wanted to move to Arizona.
All we can hope is the people we met and their families are safe and sound. On the positive side, I've been chatting with an FB friend who as it turns out lives in Joplin and its sounds as though they have a very strong community spirit and cannot believe the amount of support they are getting worldwide.