After Kathy so graciously made us a homemade latte with homemade bread AND homemade jam, and a few more stories from their eldest daughter Maddy, we hopped back on I-70. We took a quick detour, thanks to the suggestion of Kathy and Chris, and got to go directly over the continental divide with breathtaking views. It’s a good thing we enjoyed the beautiful mountainous scenery of Colorado, because after only a few hours of driving – it was gone :( Kansas is, well Kansas. It is very beautiful, but not as ever changing and dramatic as the scenery in Colorado. We quickly learned that after leaving Denver, there would be no more Starbucks to come. With the help of Rachael’s mom, we discovered that there was no Starbucks on the western half of Kansas. We even called Safeway to see if there happened to be one in the store – only to be laughed at by the man on the phone for an apparently silly question. His exact words were, “Ha, I wish there was.” We settled for a store bought Starbucks frap from the gas station.
A few hours later, we arrived at another KOA only to find out that Kansas is filled with bugs. We made a second run to the Wal-Mart supercenter (the ONLY store in good ol’ Goodland) for some supplies; food, bugs spray and materials for a homemade bug net. With the humidity we soon realized that we would not want to be sleeping with the door shut. So we got creative and we made a bug net out of material we purchased by the yard and Command Velcro strips. Yeah, we were pretty proud of ourselves. Now, we sit in our cozy bed, listening to crickets and entering our blog. Hope all is well and we’ll let you know how our visit with the World’s Largest Prairie Dog goes tomorrow.
P.S. We’ll post a pictures of our awesome sleeping quarters plus the bug net tomorrow.
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