The Sun Dome Hutchinson

... or on foot could get a good meal before really hitting the remote prairie.To our disappointment it was just like the museums in New York, closed on Mondays. Why were we so surprised at this? We were welcome to stroll the grounds, however, and were able to get the flavor of the place from that.

From there, the road drove across the Kansas Flint Hills which like so much of our previous drive through western Pennsylvania and Ohio was lovely rolling hills. The corn ...

... wet this makes for one dirty bike. The wind was either in out face pr quartering like a beat for you "sailors". Jack and I double teamed against the wind and then had a great lunch at Braums market. A bacon chicken sandwich and a chocolate malt really hit the spot. This afternoon will be bike maintenance afternoon. It is great that I have the time.

... car of us on this trip. We were thinking about it and decided that if we didn't have those connections there was no way this trip would have been possible. We are infinitely spoiled by your friendship and hope we can do the same for you on your next trip to the States. Thanks also to everyone for reading and not leaving me hate messages, even when I put up a not-so-good picture of you (amelie). Megan

... had already decided to go to Fort Larned which was fairly close by. It was a much better day for driving and we reached the fort after about an hour. This is part of the national Park Service so we got Holly and Zach to complete another Junior Ranger Badge while we were looking around the fort. This place was built by the Military in about 1850 but was only used for about 20 years. Mainly I was used as ...

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... as the lightening was moving overhead we hopped into the car. This turned out to be a wise move as a few moments later the main storm hit- it was unlike anything we had ever experienced in Britain. Hail stones the size of golf balls, ferocious winds and horizontal rain all hammered down. The thunder was inaudible above the noise, but the flashes were frequent. Unsurprisingly, we decided ...

... time change thing is going to be confusing. The plan is to leave Newton around 8 am. We'll take off from Wichita at 10:40 for Atlanta. We leave Atlanta at 4:30ish and then arrive in Dusseldorf at 7:40 am local time. That's about 12:40 Kansas time. So if we get any sleep at all it will be between 4 and midnight. Good times. Thank you all for your warm wishes. We're ready to have fun! Megan

... one might expect in Kansas. Actually we've been fortunate in that we've lost no travel days due to inclement weather. One point of recent particular interest was Gerard, KS where located in the county square is a Viet Nam memorial listing the Kansas soldiers killed during the war. The memorial is patterned after the one in Washington. One cannot escape a sensation of sorrow when doing nothing more than viewing the simply designed ...

... Now it works perfectly and no diesel spillage on fill up! I no longer have my little car. Boy was that hard to watch them take away! All of our **** plus my car weighed in at 22,900 pounds (Royce's gun safe was probably 10,000 of those pounds {just kidding dear}). I thought he was going to have a heart attack watching them load that today. It was somewhat precarious to say the least. But all is well. We had a fabulous dinner last night with ...

... one ER and then the other ER paged me at 12:15 am! Thus all 3 cats were wide awake and distraught. Fortunately, I did not have to go into the hospital, but I spent the rest of the night trying to calm them down and reassure them that all was well. They have finally gotten used to their new home and aren't quite so skittish. In fact, it is quite cool out so I have several windows open and they are watching the birds go ...