Windmill blade

My prediction of boring for Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas wasn't far off the mark. Pretty dry country with not much to look at. We did see quite a few windmill blades going down the road on very large trucks. In Lamar Colorado they had one of the blades on display. It measured 112 feet long. The new ones are even longer. Outside of Dodge City they had literally hundreds of them churning away in the wind. They cost about two million each so there was a lot of money out on the prairie. We spent the night in Dodge. We didn't see Matt, Chester, or Miss Kitty. If you don't know what I'm talking about you're not old enough. If you do, you must be older than dirt.

Kansas prairie

Today we finished Kansas. It gradually got a little wetter, but not too much of interest other than wheat, corn, and sorghum. Also lots of oil and gas wells. Last night half our motel was filled with fracking crews from Louisiana. Tonight we have crossed into Misssouri and are holed up in Nevada, MO. We had hoped to get a little further. Tomorrow we will go through the Ozarks and hopefully through St Louis.