Today marks the first day of our return home. It was a major moving day eastward. Because we were losing an hour today, we got up early and left at 7:00 AM and a very chilly 45 degrees. Knowing it would get very warm before the day was over, we were in shorts. Thank goodness for seat warmers. I will say, it didn't take long for the warm-up to begin. By 8:10 AM it was 70 degrees (of course we were moving out of the mountains during this time). By 9:15 it...

This will be a short entry today and very short on photos. We left Denver at 6:35 and 66 degrees. We had a lot of miles to cover today, and had been warned that traffic in Denver would be bad, so we left early. And even at that early hour, we got held up for about half an hour just getting out of town. But we finally got to the highway and pointed the car east. Now, I know that Kansas, as part of the heartland of America, feeds us (and a lot of other countri...

5/29/12 – We got up early today, but for some reason, we still didn't leave until 8:15 AM. Must have been the time we took to have breakfast. It was 54 degrees in Denver when we got on the road. This was a day for traveling. There is not much to see on I-70 through Colorado and Kansas, so we drove all the way to Salina. And we were told…it is NOT Salina (saleena), it is Sal EYE na.   Learn something every day. Anyway, there was not much to tak...