Comfort Inn Great Bend

... things:
-We still have no clue what time it is. All time related devices are telling us it's still currently Delaware time...which isn't correct.
-The floor space between the front seats consists of only chords.
-We all manage to regularly lose things inside Lola.
-Driver's musical choice. Christa's rocking the great Across the Universe soundtrack.
-Bud Light Sunset Wheat exists?
-Rt 50 and Rt 270 are, so far, the ...

The Tallgrass Prairie once covered 140 million acres of North America. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was established in 1996 to preserve, protect, and interpret the less than four percent of remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The 10,894 acre preserve ...

Although Mushroom Rock State Park is the smallest state park in Kansas, it's the most interesting. The Park has Dakota sandstone concretions. There are many concretions in this Park, but some of it still remains and has been supporting three of the rocks for many years.

The resulting combination of rocks have a mushroom shape. The unusual shapes caught the imaginations of the Native Americans and pioneers, some of whom have left graffiti in softer sandstone.

Fort Larned NHS:

Fort Larned was established on the vast prairie in Western Kansas midway along the Santa Fe trail in 1859 to protect mail coaches, freighters and other Trail traffic from Plains Indians. With nine beautifully restored buildings, Fort Larned is the best preserved Indian Wars military post on the Santa Fe Trail. As the site of an Indian Agency, Fort Larned also was instrumental in maintaining friendly relations with Plains Indians. In July 1978, six years ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected the 34th President of the U.S. He served two terms – 1952 to 1961. He was elected President primarily because of his military accomplishments. President Roosevelt designated Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander. As such, Eisenhower's duties were to direct and coordinate all military efforts to end tyranny in WWII. He successfully commanded the Allied invasion of northern Europe and brought an end to WWII ...

... City to Great Bend into a quatering wind out of the south east. the wind was light but it was in the 90's, I rode most of the day with Rose from Ohio who is now a fan of drafting. Our second SAG stop was in the town of Midway, which is midway between the coasts which means we are pretty darn close to the ...

There won't be a lot of pictures today - Don likes to sit back while I drive. Today was quite an experience! The pace is not slow and we are travelling secondary road that thankfully have minimal traffic. We occasionally meet other vehicles with oversized loads which proves interesting but for the most part it is steady going. for those of you with a map handy, we continue south on I ...

... about a quarter mile of red columnar rock that must have been 200 - 300 feet high and looked like very close together tree trunks. I found out the rock formation is called crennelated granite. Unfortunately, my camera had died and I wasn't able to get pictures but it will stay in my mind until the next time I come this way. By about 11:00 a.m. I was down and out of the Sangre de Cristo range of the Rockies and experiencing the beginning of the ...

Well the immigration was fun...waiting for an hour thinking I was missing my connection flight, I picked up my case but it was to late to get it on the plane, I made the flight to rapid but my case went to Denver...nice. I left my "G Bush and Son Family butchers est 1989" at home I thought it was best Rapid is cool though I'm staying with My aunty Kayte and its the black hills area so its steeped in history its where gold was found and dinosaurs roamed ...

departing odometer 23955....arriving odometer 24337. We drove 382 miles today. We have stopped at the Santa Rosa RV Park for the night. They have a BBQ Restaurant here and not much else. I think a Catholic Church and a Dollar Store is all that's here. The sunset was nice so I took a pic. We will be seeing a lot of desert plains and cactus for awhile. YEEHAW!!!!!!