ozarks/illanois roadtrip

i won't be doing a ton of fishing around minnesota this april. i'm working ridiculous amounts of overtime hours to do a huge road trip. the plan so far is to drive down to missouri and use a small motel as kind of a home base for some fishing trips within 6 hours driving distance from there for 5 nights. then on the last day im driving up to illanois stopping at the confluence of the osage and missouri river along the way. when in illanois im going to fish around the carlyle spillway to try and catch my lifelist silver and bighead carp. reservations are already made and i will be leaving in exactly 3 weeks.