466.5 miles

For all my doubts about Kansas, the first rest stop out of Colorado had free coffee and free WiFi.  Who needs anything else in life?

Drove through more rainstorms and watched the lightning on the horizon as we drove toward it and out of Colorado.  It was a mostly uneventful trip, just another 450 miles down I-70 East.  At the coffee/WiFi stop, we had lunch at a picnic table outside and I got online to ask Kyle what to do if we saw a tornado.  (He said to go to the basement - I'm not sure where to find one off of I-70.)

This truck in front of us confused me.

After that, it really was just fields and corn and cows.  Not too terrible, actually, especially compared to Nevada.  Now we're in Salina which I picked as a stopping point because it's halfway between Denver and Dallas and it had a population of 45,000 which I figured was pretty significant.  Unfortunately, I didn't realize Salina is huge land-wise and there are probably 3 people per square mile.  It's pretty much a small cluster of motels and fast food restaurants in a big sea of corn.  And we're staying next to a trailer park.

Now we're just hanging out watching TV.  There aren't a lot of good channels out here...I wonder what people do for fun.  We watched bad vH1 shows like we've been doing all week - yesterday we watched Rock of Love (hilAAArious) and tonight was My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding.  (The commercial had my favorite quote of the evening - Guy: This is our party, right?  Girl: This is my party with you as a super exclusive VIP guest.)

Now we're watching the Yankees game which we were excited to see, although I realized 20 minutes into it that it's not the Yankees game, it's the Kansas City Royals game.  Because we're in Kansas.  Duh.  I love Kansas.  But only because they're seriously shutting down the Yankees right now.

We're also in Central time now, which throws me off because it's only one hour off from Boston.  And all TV shows are on an hour early (now I understand what it means for a show to be scheduled 9/8 Central) which is kind of weird.

 


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