Thursday, October 17th, we were on the road by 9am. Such a wonderful hotel last night. On a three week trip you get all kinds of hotel experiences. Some I checked and made reservations for ahead turned out to be awful. Some reservations we made as we traveled. Last night was one of the best of those.
It was a Quality Inn. We wanted to be on the east side of Denver for an easy exit. We needed dinner and wanted to get that prior to checking into the hotel. The exit off I-70 before our hotel had a Jimmy John's. We love Jimmy John's. From there it was all right turns to get to the Quality Inn. We were given a room on the second floor. It had a double sink situation. This made me happy. It doesn't happen often. We didn't have to balance our morning routines with one sink.
There was a Flying J gas station just down the street. Claude topped off the tank. I went in for a donut for each of us and a soda. Three turns on the road and we were on I-70 headed east. Yeah.
I checked Google Maps and learned we only had 1150+ miles to get home!! There was a cloud cover which was most welcome as we would be driving into the sun. Double yeah!!
When you leave Denver, you leave the mountains behind. You are immediately on flat ground. We will miss the mountains a lot. The picture is near Agate, Colorado.
It was a Quality Inn. We wanted to be on the east side of Denver for an easy exit. We needed dinner and wanted to get that prior to checking into the hotel. The exit off I-70 before our hotel had a Jimmy John's. We love Jimmy John's. From there it was all right turns to get to the Quality Inn. We were given a room on the second floor. It had a double sink situation. This made me happy. It doesn't happen often. We didn't have to balance our morning routines with one sink.
There was a Flying J gas station just down the street. Claude topped off the tank. I went in for a donut for each of us and a soda. Three turns on the road and we were on I-70 headed east. Yeah.
I checked Google Maps and learned we only had 1150+ miles to get home!! There was a cloud cover which was most welcome as we would be driving into the sun. Double yeah!!
When you leave Denver, you leave the mountains behind. You are immediately on flat ground. We will miss the mountains a lot. The picture is near Agate, Colorado.
Music will help to pass these long miles. I had a thumb drive with 1,500 of our favorite songs to sing along from our CD collection. We anticipate it will be this lay of the land across Kansas.
Kansas...Hello Dorothy!!
Kansas...Hello Dorothy!!
Time change before Colby, Kansas to Central Standard Time.
Somewhere in Kansas, we ran into construction. This time they were painting new lines on the road. For the construction, they had you only one side of the I-70. They had painted two yellow lines down the middle and traffic went one way on one side and the other way on the other side of the two yellow lines. Now the construction was near completion and they were preparing I-70 to have both of these lanes head east. A big vehicle was carefully going down the middle and removing the two yellow lines. A little further down a truck was painting white dashed lines down the middle. Claude was in stitches and pointed out tome the unbelievably silly way these white dashes were being painted. A dash would go off to one side, the next one might curve, the next one would point the other direction. It was hysterical. We are not sure if it was like a 'student driver' on this painting vehicle. Very funny. The pictures do not do it justice but may give you some idea.
"Born just south of Colby, Kansas. Was his mother's pride and joy." Remember that John Denver song. We were at Colby, Kansas.
Pit stop in Ellis, Kansas. Love's gasoline was $2.85 per gallon. Such a far cry from California.
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