Hi dear friends and family! We left Breckenridge at about 8:30 mountain time, crossed the Continental Drive at Hoosier Pass, elevation over 11,000 feet, passed many miles of grazing land, and imagined Bonanza and the wagon trains headed west… miles and miles of just grazing land with mountains and rivers. Then we began a steady drop "down" to 7000 feet. We then passed through Fairplay, Colorado (I imagine poker players must not cheat in this town…) and crossed over the South Platte which has its headwaters near Fairplay. This is our third crossing of the South Platte (we crossed over it twice when it merged with the North Platte in – you guessed it, North Platte, Nebraska). … Passed Pike’s Peak and entered "the city" of Colorado Springs. Before we could shake a lamb’s tail, we were on the flat, great plains of Kansas. As broad as a Kansas corn field; corn as far as the eye can see… yep – that’s Kansas. We changed our clocks forward an hour and stopped in Colby, Kansas "The Oasis of Kansas" and the trading and service center for the wheat and corn producers in Kansas. Time for a nap and a steak and some sweet corn. Yum. Love Susie
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