The Rest of the Trip

So, we left you last in Missouri.  We took the bypass around St. Louis, which may or may not have caused some confusion in the car in which I was riding.  It did, however, provide some interesting photographic opportunities.

The Mighty Mississip

Something that piqued my Scottish roots followed our slight miscalculation was a church sign in the St. Louis area:

I wonder if they all have pointy beards...

There wasn't much going in Missouri until we hit Kansas City, which is much smaller than I thought.  I guess it's a typical Midwestern capital, though.  We saw the home of the Royals, and we heard an interesting radio advertisement that talked about the hottest girls in Kansas City.  I don't mean any offense to anybody from Kansas City, but I don't immediately think of hot girls when I think of Kansas City.  It just seemed...funny.

The Royals play here.

Something else that perplexed me about Kansas City is that it's in two states.  Does that mean it's got two mayors?  What's going on in KC?  That's right, you guessed it.  We crossed into Kansas next.

There's not a lot going on in Kansas once you pass the exit for Manhattan.  We stayed the night in Manhattan, which is affectionately known as the Little Apple.  It's the home of Kansas State University.  We were pretty beat by the time we got there, so we didn't get to take in the sights.  I've been told by my Kansan friends that Manhattan is pretty great.  Maybe next time we move to Colorado, we'll stay in Manhattan a little longer.  I was also surprised at how hilly Kansas actually is.  East of the Manhattan exit, it started to flatten out, but not as much as I thought.  I think Indiana has Kansas' number in that department.  The really interesting (and by interesting, I mean eerie) feature of the Kansan landscape were the wind farms.  It looked especially creepy against the gathering storm clouds.

If you aren't paying attention, it's easy to miss the Kansas and Colorado border.  Eastern Colorado looks a whole lot like Western Kansas.  It was a few hours before we saw the Colorado that Hoosiers always picture.

The mountain passes have a few of these small tunnels that actually function to protect the roads from snow.

So, that concludes the brief journey across planes to Pagosa Springs.  We lived in the house for 3 days and 4 nights without any furniture.  It was very uncomfortable, but we were thankful that it was only that long.  Our stuff was originally going to arrive about a week after we arrived in Pagosa.

Well, now that you've made it to Pagosa with us, blog updates from now on will be of more current events.  I've also added Andrea as an author to the blog, so look for future posts from her!