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Fun Fall Activities

A travel blog entry by jencape

... them at home some time - wonder if I can ever recreate them to be as good as I've had them there, though...) Also, the kids LOVED finding out what cattails can do when you smash them up (I never knew! Found them as we took a hike in a park in rural Johnson Co., KS) - but what a mess! (I know, I know - not the way that Tony looked at them...) It did look like snow (my niece was even making "snow angels" ...

1200 miles to go

A travel blog entry by georgetz

We kept going through the flatness of Kansas into the night to try to steal a bit of time for the end of the week. At 11pm we hit the 1200 miles to go point and found a place to stay.

Tomorrow, we can get a good 10-12 hours on the road leaving a relatively short distance for Friday to get into New ...

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A travel blog entry by ninjagecko

... time we finish a book we can get $5 for souveniers. We have watched Mission Impossible and Escape to Witch Mountain.

We've also seen several wind farms on our trip. We even saw one being built today! Did you know the blades on a windmill are so gigantic that you could line up about 10 pickup trucks and it still would be just about the size of one blade. We also saw some oil wells that were pumping oil out of the ground. ...

Day 28 - Traveling through Kansas

A travel blog entry by therows

Today we drove across Kansas. Not much to say about the drive- mile after mile of flat nothing. We didn't have any sites planned for the ride so it was another travel day. We did stay at a hotel with an indoor water slide which the kids loved. I think the closer we get to home the more everyone wants to get there. ...

Night 27: Plainly the Plains

A travel blog entry by splencner

... stands beside the multi-cylindar one. Next to these often stand a roadhouse, a gas station, and a modest free church. The main drag runs alongside houses, a school, and a couple fledgling businesses. At one end is a watertower. This is all surrounded by yellow-green fields of corn or wheat uninterrupted by pesky houses that cause a farmhand to turn the GPS operated combine too often. As soon as you leave one town, the next is visible, ten miles ...

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