Seven States in Five Days

Originally I had intended to post to my blog every day of our trip mostly so I could remember what we did on our vacation. But, here we are six days into it and I am just getting started. This is mostly due to the fact that we have been arriving at our motel late and leaving early, plus three of us trying to use only two computers.

We started out on Friday after my orthodontist appointment in Montrose and my periodontist check-up in Grand Junction. We were hoping to at least get out of Colorado the first day, but only made it as far as Limon. We ate dinner at the Casa Bonita restaurant in Denver and the boys were totally overwhelmed with all the cliff divers, mariachis, and gunfighting cowboys. It is quite a wild place and reminds me more of an amusement park with its videos playing while you wait in the long lines to pick up your food.

The second day we headed out of Colorado to the plains of Kansas. We stopped at one of the nicest rest stops/visitor’s centers just across the border. Then it was corn field after corn field. We visited the Railroad Museum in Ellis, Kansas. The model railroad setup was very cool. We stopped at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, but it was closing by the time we got there.

We arrived in Kansas City around dinner time but first made a stop at the Cabela’s store which was definitely a highlight of our trip. This was another amusement park type experience, but in a good way! The boys enjoyed the shooting gallery and the huge display of animals from all over the world. It was better than a zoo since these animals were nice enough to stand still for pictures .

It was another late night arrival to our motel in Columbia, Missouri (at least I think that is where we ended up stopping that night.) The next day we had breakfast at Bob Evans in Missouri, lunch in Illinois, a snack in Indiana, and a late dinner at Bob Evans in Kentucky. And we had arrived at our current location of Florence, Kentucky where we are staying during the North American Christian Convention which is taking place just a few miles away across the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Monday Ken went to NACC and set up our booth first thing in the morning. Then we all went to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky which is just a few miles from the motel. The museum was definitely another highlight of our trip so far. It is a truly wonderful place and we spent the whole day there taking it all in.

I have definitely enjoyed the scenery of each state we’ve traveled through. It gets greener and greener the further east we travel and thick with trees. We are also enjoying the convention and reconnecting with some familiar faces, plus meeting new folks who will hopefully visit us one day in Colorado at Norwood Christian Ranch in the coming years.

Well, I need to head out to pick up Ken and bring him back to the motel. We will be packing up again tomorrow night and heading out for Cleveland to see some of Ken’s relatives on Friday. I will try to update as soon as I can.