Recovering

After a day of being down, I woke up with a feeling of recovery today. Ww had stayed in Columbus, MO and plotted a route for a little over 5 hrs only, which would get us to Hutchinson,KS. From there we are now facing another 6.5hrs to Trinidad,CO.

So feeling better, I took the first turn of driving. We had lots of time, didn't need to rush for our destination. From the I-70 we took the 470 then 435 onto I-35. At Emporia we switched out the Interstate with the US 50, a great 2-lane highway in much better condition than most Interstates.

At the town of Newton we followed the I-135 for a short distance until the US 50 turn-off which ultimately brought us to Hutchinson. This is gonna be the last night spent in a hotel!!! Tomorrow we will move into more comfortable quarters.

Dixie has been the most wonderful traveling dog you can imagine. When you take a dog into a hotel room you are afraid of that the dog starts barking. Dixie never said a beep. While driving, she patiently lies behind our front seat, mostly sleeping.

Buck Creek State Park - the place where we spent an involutary 4 days while broken down with our transmission. It was here we first met "The Angel Lady" who didn't mind running errands for us and driving me to Columbus to get our van back.

These scary football friends were placed at a street corner in Springfield Ohio. By the way, we didn't see a single Haitian immigrant. The town was rather quiet and I think most people there were trying to recover from the terrible statement T-Rump came up with, resulting in wild bomb threats.

The State of Indiana "welcomed oss" with the worst condition Interstate you can imagine. What is wrong with this State?

Gas prices are down all over the US. Since people liked to blame the president for high gas prices we should now start "blaming" Biden for the low prices. I still think that none of this is the making of any president. But hey, let's thank Biden for it.

5 lanes to choose from when going through Kansas City