Friday, November 1, 2013

17 Live From Kansas - Thursday Oct 25 2007


Kansas, originally uploaded by wellingtonrabbit.

The eastern part of Colorado is not nearly as verdant as the western. It is very flat and dry looking. We see Pike's Peak rising in the distance off to the south of us. I do not know this is what we are looking at until later. It is so impressive because it is snow peaked and just rises out of the flat lands. It is over a 100 miles away.

Kansas is more flat land, miles and miles of flat land, mostly farmland. Long irrigation systems can be seen everywhere, as well as windmills and small pumps. We guess these to be oil pumps but we are not sure as they are a lot smaller than the rigs you see in Texas.

We are now into 24 hour driving again as we want to meet the kids in Williamsburg Saturday afternoon and rather than arrive exhausted we are headed for sister Suzanne's home in Roanoke where we can crash and tidy up. It will be fun to see her house too as we have not had the opportunity to visit since she moved back from Phoenix.

These new plans are all Donny's idea. Really. I tell him that after 38 years of marriage we are beginning to think alike because, of course, this revised adventure sounds exactly like something I would cook-up. Or maybe he is reading my mind. I have thought about this exact end to our trip but have not said anything because it is a bit involved. We are having Virgil relay our Busch Gardens passes to Lewis' friend (and ours) Kent who will bring them along with him on Saturday. And Emily has to negotiate around Martin's soccer game and making the trip without Marty who is chained to the new theater with more annoyances to iron out than there should be.

We stop in Topeka for dinner and to refresh our coffee only to find that Starbucks and Panera Bread both have just closed for the evening. Fortunately some ladies are also looking for dinner at Panera and suggest that we try the Starbucks in Barnes & Noble only a few stores away. Coffee salvation and they even have some great soup and hot sandwiches so we do not need to go anywhere else for dinner. We stock up on four venti cups of coffee for the road. We have learned our coffee lesson. We have tried several times today to find a Starbucks (a good road trip stop because you know you are going to get a decent cup of coffee) only to be told by our Garmily and also Starbucks.com that none are to be found even close to our route. Plus it's night and so we know that we will not find any more real coffee until we get to St Louis.

Your road correspondent reporting vaguely in the style of Jack Kerouac.

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