Colorado Notes
After leaving Estes Park we drove south and east to Denver. We drove through Boulder. This was beautiful scenery, with steep canyons and lots of rocks. We passed a 100 mile bicycle race. In fact, it seemed that there were hundreds of cyclists on the road in addition to the people in the race. I think being active is part of the Colorado ethos.
Denver is the capital of the state. Another capitol building.
Once we were out of Denver about the only thing to see were huge farms. It's hard to see in the pictures, but we saw many fields with multiple combines working in a row.
Kansas
We moved through Kansas pretty quickly even though there is SO much to see. We we intent on getting home as soon as possible so we had to bypass such attractions as the Eisenhower home and Presidential Library. Also, Kansas has the home town of Bob Dole and Arlen Spector (same town). I wonder if they will remove Spector from the billboard since he's changed parties (senator from Pennsylvania). And one town had a sign for the annual meal loaf festival. Wow! No wonder Dorthy and Toto took flight!
We drove through Topeka, capital of Kansas.
Missouri
Matthew, we're not in Kansas any more...
At St. Louis we stopped at the Gateway Arch. This is a national monument (completed in 1965) and so Matthew got another passport stamp. The Arch is to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase and the great push to the west. It was fitting for us to wrap up our trip here since we started at the places in North Dakota where Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804. Later in our trip we saw the headwaters of the Missouri River, which Lewis and Clark also visited. We also went to Great Falls, which caused them great problems. And, at the border of Washington and Oregon we crossed the Columbia River, which they took to the Pacific. They had started their great expedition at St. Louis so it's fitting for us to end ours here.
We've really enjoyed the trip and we have lots of memories. Thanks for reading our blog!
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