Diary of a Road Trip: St. Louis to Denver

Day 3 - St. Louis to Denver
     Miles: 843
     Hours: 13 (much fewer
     stops today as there was
     literally nothing in all of
     Kansas that could entice
     us to get off the highway)
     Stayed with: Denise
     (A friend from high school's
     mother)
     States: 3 - MO, KS, and
     CO


Crossed into Mountain Time! 

Discovered that Kansas is equal parts as much of a cliche as you'd think and not as much of a cliche as you'd think.  It is super flat, but only on the western half, the eastern half was surprisingly hilly.  We saw some oil pumps - that was pretty cool.  There are a lot of billboards for Oz (I think it was a wine company...), cattle are everywhere, and I was right to avoid the rest of the state like the plague after having one hospital there. 

We hit quite the milestone in Kansas - the exact middle of the country.  Of course we had to stop to take some pictures...

The exact middle of the country

Us at the exact middle of the country

Upon exiting Kansas we drove through a black hole (literally a cloud that came all the way down to meet the earth pictured above) into Colorado - our favorite state. 

First and foremost because we stumbled upon a magical Starbucks that appeared out of nowhere after driving through hundreds of miles of nothing.  In Denver we ate at a lovely pretentious restaurant called Potager (pronounced 'protege'). 







We then stayed at the most wonderful home (or as we termed it - a magical resort) where we were treated to the most delicious breakfast, only a small part of which is pictured here.