Tuesday, May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Out of Kansas

 

First things first

Happy Birthday Christina ! Smile

 

Woke to clear, cloudless, blue skies.  Low temp last night – 45 degrees.  First time above mid 30’s or lower.  Found that yesterdays storm had completely washed all traces of dust and dirt off the carbus and the toad.  Couldn’t have done a better job if I had intentionally washed them.

Back onto US 50 headed northeast.  Very pretty road even when it joined the interstate.  Until we reached Kansas City.  Then it was just five lanes of city freeway.  Kinda like LA with enough  fewer cars to maintain 55 mph. 

One thing about Missouri that impresses us is that everything is green.  All the major roads have very wide borders (30 yards or more) and they are kept mowed.  The interstates look like gray ribbons in the middle of green carpet.  The state is covered with trees (cottonwood like ?) with bright green leaves.  And the trees are very dense.  Would be very easy to lose your bearings if you took a walk in a forest and did not pay attention to where you were or how you got there.  There are fields of agriculture and pastures, often carved out of a forest of trees, and all are green.  This is not just a spring thing.  We have been through the state in the fall and it looked the same but with colors mixed into the green forests.

Stopped at a very nice state park about sixty miles north of Kansas City and had our first laid back afternoon.  Took a short hike through a forest and then just kicked back and read, or updated a blog.

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Trail through forest around campground.

Trip map to date.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en&authuser=0&mid=12x4dHvzJbvb0UcaUtz2NjLNihZE



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