Hmm, how to explain a day spent driving across all of Kansas and Eastern Colorado??
We definitely saw our share of spacious skies and amber waves of grain, that's for sure! We stayed entertained by listening to borrowed books on tape (thanks Kate!) and trying to guess at what time the radio would stop scanning endlessly and land on an actual station. At times it would have been possible to knit a small sock without needing to put my hands back on the steering wheel. It was a beautiful drive though, especially once we left the interstate for a more rural highway where we passed right by massive farms and grain silos, as well as plenty of windmills. Thank you, American farmers!
We stopped in Colorado Springs to visit Costco (it had been over 3 weeks so Malcolm was getting the shakes) then headed into the Rockies in search of a place to pitch the tent. We were now traveling on Route 50, a road that technically passes less than a mile from my childhood home. Though that intersection may have been 2000 miles away, it still made me feel a little closer to home just being on 50!
It was amazing to drive through the mountains at dusk, winding along the river and watching the peaks slowly become silhouettes outlined by thousands of bright stars. We passed plenty of perfectly good campgrounds, but being the budget-obsessed grad students that we are, we refused to stop until we found a "economically priced" (aka: FREE) site off the road. Unfortunately, that happened to be AFTER we passed over the continental divide, but it was pretty cool to be up there in the middle of the night, with no one but the stars around.
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