Next we went through Kansas City, which is actually two cities apparently, one in Kansas, one in Missouri, which brought us to the next state of the day. It was not nice. It was the first place we went that…
Product Review: Skooba Cable Stable DLX
Life on the road means making choices about what you bring along. A missing cable or adapter is the difference between being able to watch your own media on a hotel TV and being stuck with a grainy hotel-provided content…
Day 13 Part 1: Tonganoxie
We got out of Topeka as quickly as we could. The hotel managed to be efficient in exclusively one way – clearing away breakfast. We got there at 9:03 and there wasn’t even coffee. Anyway, we got on the road and…
Day 12: Churches & Cicadas (or how we ended up at the Westboro Baptist Church)
Due to doing laundry and going for a swim in Salina, we didn’t get on the road very early. As a result, this was a day where we didn’t get as far. That was acceptable though, as plenty of interesting…
Day 9: Into the Mountains
We had better weather for our second full day in Colorado. Chris very much wanted to see snow on a warm day so we made our way up into the mountains. We drove through Loveland up into Estes Park, which…
Minor Differences: God’s Country Cowboy Church
It’s often worth instinctively stopping when you see something that isn’t immediately parsable. We were on our way to the Rockies when we saw this sign: We met the Pastor (see below video) who was very friendly and explained that…
Day 8: Fort Collins, CO
For our first full day in Colorado, we hung out with a friend of mine who is studying there. She showed us around town and drove us up to a more scenic area, which looked oddly Scottish due to what…
Day 7: Cheyenne, WY and Fort Collins, CO
After spending the night in Douglas, we attempted to leave. This was a challenge. Some setting on our navigation system made it want to give us a detour 70 miles out of our way starting off going north instead of…
Day 5: The Badlands
We left Kadoka bright and early since we had changed time zone and getting up was easy. We headed off to Badlands National Park. From Native Americans to French fur traders, everyone has considered these lands ‘bad’. I assume what they…
Day 4: More SD – Corn, God and Time
We got our first rainy day so far in Mitchell. We went to see the Corn Palace anyway. There isn’t a lot to it, but it is fairly unique (and full of corn related products and humour): There was a…