Parking at the Park in Park

It may come as a surprise to those that know and love us, but we didn't get away from Great Bend quite as early as we had planned. So...we'll blame it on Kyle. She came by and we'll say that slowed us down. Actually she helped load some of the clothes and food into the camper.

Ben arrived home from Kansas City and then left for work, so we also got to tell him good-bye again.

Then it was "errand time". Kathy had three things to mail that needed to go out. We went to the library to weigh them, picked up some audiobooks for the trip, and then bought stamps at Dillons.

We left GB about 2:27 PM. The packages were mailed in Hoisington. Ahhhh, finally the trip has "officially" started!

Our first meal was lupper (or is that dupper?), which is our name for the meal between lunch (or dinner) and supper, similar to brunch. We decided to park at the park in Park!!! Park, Kansas, that is. You can see Kathy finishing dessert (a banana, what else?) at the park in Park. That is one large Catholic church for a tiny town! It's rather impressively situated at the end of the street (there is no definite "Main Street" in Park). There's a cemetery behind it too.

Although the sun tried to come out for little while, most of the day has been overcast. Then, between Burlington and Limon, ,Colorado, the rain started. It's obvious that they have been getting a lot of rain because the fields are waterlogged. We have stopped in Limon at the KOA for the night. It's lightly raining still and parts of the campground are actually flooded. The young man at the desk said all the "electric only" sites are under water, so he gave us an electric/water site for the electric price. It's actually handy because the showers are right across the road from our site.

It's now 8:15 PM Mountain Time. It was sure nice that KOA has free wifi here so that we could record our first exciting day of vacation. We'll probably eat something in a bit and maybe watch a DVD, then head to bed. It's going to be good to actually catch up on some sleep.

Our current plans are to follow I-70 to Utah. We may take small sidetrips, but since Utah is more our destination we'll probably keep pretty much on track. Where we stay Monday night is anyone's guess because it just depends on what kind of time we make. The Rocky Mountains are our first real tourist destination tomorrow.