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Great steak and family roots in KC

A travel blog entry by wheelerlj

I am too tired to write tonight. Many thanks to Gene, Greg and Garilyn Barner for a wonderful dinner last night and a grest tour of Kansas City and family roots this morning. We're in West Mining (or something like that!), Kansas, tonight, camping next to a giant -- and I do mean GIANT -- steam shovel. details tomorrow, after we get some sleep and take some ...

Fun Fall Activities

A travel blog entry by jencape

... but they enjoyed it so much that Tony had to run back to the park to get more the next day (at Amber's request!), and started the "flurry" of them before trick-or-treaters started visiting - but then a pile caught on fire with the fire-pit fire Lee had going in the driveway, and then that was the end of hanging out in the driveway to greet trick-or-treaters - just glad the kids were ok, and no one was ...

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

Today we drove through the Rocky Mountain range. There were a lot of tall mountains. It started out with a lot plains of in Kansas and for a couple hours in Colorado. Then there started to be a lot more bumps and we saw a few shallower-than-most canyons. Then we went into the foothills and it was really fun and it felt like we were going up and down on a boat. Then we started to see the first mountains and they looked gigantic and ...

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. ...

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