Newton Kansas...we have 4 on The Road touchdown

Hi everybody,
Its Tori. We spent 10 hours on the road which is 500 miles! I fell asleep a lot, but I also noticed that Kansas has a beautiful scenery as well.  i learned about sea level and the gradual decline in elevation all the way to Kansas. When we took a brief wrong turn( oops) ,I noticed that it was a little intimidating because nobody was out and about so it seemed like a ghost town.  It was interesting. anyway, we are in the hotel now and we already checked out the pool here. it is pretty sweet. We were the only ones swimming but that just meant more room for us.  All I really know is I am exited for tomorrow and what will become of it.
Love you all,
Tori
( or as grandma would like me to use Victoria)
My feeling about today: Is exited and super sleepy



Susan here...
Lift off from Garfield at 8:04.  Cat in the box for an extended sleepover at  her first home (Lisa and John)  house alarm set...Victoria settled in the back seat at 9. ..and we were ON THE ROAD.   We were just about to I -70 when I realized I did not have...you guessed it ...MY iPAD.  I has been in purse and suitcase, attached at the hip, so to speak for more than 2 years,  and I had not given it one thought in the preceding 2 hours.  I mourned this for considerable time before I figured out two things:  I can do this blog on the "black Mac" with a memory card downloader from WalMart  and...I am truly a spoiled woman to be so saddened to have to work harder with a few more steps on the computer instead of the iPad!     Life Lesson number one for the trip!

I have also now learned that the only Mac store in Kansas is in Kansas City and in Oklahoma..there are none.  WalMart pretty much owns the retail world around here,,. In Goodland our friend is hoping their small town gets a "real " grocery store again soon.

The fields between Colorado and Goodland Kansas are bleak and dry...getting greener, more defined, almost poetically pretty from Goodland on.  We saw all the  Winter wheat, picturesque in it's symmetrical harvesting.  Then corn, sort of calf high and looking deep  green.  The powers that be have left many of the (I believe) limestone fenceposts the earliest settlers used in this place where there were NO trees to coral the cattle. I never drive through here without thinking of how lonely it must have been for the early women,

tomorrow... Wichita



Tom...excited just to be leaving...been planning for so long

Meeting the really nice Goodland co-workers.  This was the best!!!


After six and a half hours I was done with the road trip and ready for an airplane.

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