Day 3 of the Grand Road Trip - CO, WY, NE, IA, MO, KS

August 31st:

It was a certain some person's birthday.  Happy birthday!

I was up at sunrise.  Was able to get some pretty pictures.

CO was up early - she made pancakes for us.

It is a 700 mile day.  Our plan was to leave at 7am, but we didn't get on the road until 7:20am - not too tragic.  As we left CO/JO's mile-long drive way, we saw prong horn deer.  How nice.

We drove from Northern Colorado back to Wyoming, to Nebraska, to Iowa (about 30 min!), to Missouri, to Kansas.  Got there about 8pm local time. About 700 miles.

Sunrise at CO+JO's house

Sunrise reflected on the windows

CO got up early and
made pancakes

Posing at the looooong drive way

Loaded up and ready to go 7:20am

Our hosts watch as we leave

Saw a pronghorn just as we left the driveway

windmills

Oil Derrick

Sunflower fields

Big statue of a
coyote on a hill

Nebraska has money...  They have
high class rest stops!

"Nebraska... the good life"
Maybe I should move there  :)
I do think it is a very pretty and serene state

Tried to capture the whole train, but couldn't

Water tower at Cabela's
Headquarters in Nebraska

Sometimes Nebraska is very flat...

...and sometime it isn't.

Not the Hershey of the chocolates, that is in
Pennsylvania.  Love the sunflowers along the road.

A Nebraska gas station convenience store...
Says "You are Nowhere" - hahaha

Got in a turn only lane and drove in to the Nebraska State
Fair and had to make a U turn and come back out

Had lunch here, nice rooster!!

They sell these T-shirt at the rooster 

restaurant in Nebraska.  Man with an 

assault weapon on my shirt!??!???

Lincoln NE 44 mi

Had never seen a minimum speed before

Off the Freeway, on to highways in Missouri now

Back on the Freeway #29 South

Freeway signs in Kansas City

Lawrence is where Ferial lived in the 90's

Freeway splits - we took the right hand side.
This is within 10 minutes from destination  :)