We're on Vacation!!

Around 8 this morning, we bid Kim, Chris, Luke, Hannah & Drew goodbye. What a wonderful, hard working week we had with all of them!! It was hard to leave but we now have much to look forward too.

As we left Wichita, it was foggy and the fog just got worse for about an hour or so until in spots it was near zero. However, when the sun did shine, we were almost immediately met with 100+ temperatures. Most of the afternoon it was 101-105. The skies were perfectly blue and for about half the distance the grass etc was green. Now, everything is nice brown color but that might be normal for this time of the year.

We are now in Pueblo, Colorado, for the night after driving 434 miles today. Oh, the sights that we saw----fields of cotton, soybeans, corn, milo, vegetables of all kinds but particularly onions; oil wells; pheasant "farms"; huge beef factories; lots of beef cattle feeding lots (maybe not quite as many cows as in the past) and horses. One of the saddest places of Greensburg, Kansas. This is the town that was almost totally destroyed by a tornado with some deaths probably more than year ago. What wasn't newly built there was gone. The places where buildings had stood was mostly all that was left. We drove past the "hospital" which was only FEMA trailers plus tents with a red cross painted on the top.

What time is it---our bodies don't know. We gained another hour today when we crossed the Colorado line. We are now 2 hours behind HC time.

Tomorrow is still in the planning stage. Right now, we are thinking we will head north to Wyoming. Our next destination will probably be the Tetons.