A Daily Double: Follow the Yellow Brick Road

After a hot breakfast at the Country Inn & Suites where we stayed last night, we left Denver heading east to Kansas. This is the third time we've stayed in one of the Country Inn rooms, and we give them all four of our thumbs up. The rooms are clean and the wi fi and breakfast are included with the room, which was very reasonably priced.

We weren't looking forward to driving through Kansas, because we thought the drive would be similar to when we drove through Nebraska two years ago. Nebraska has no scenery, except corn, and the roads are so bumpy, you would swear your tires are falling off the car. But we were pleasantly surprised. Kansas did have a little corn at the beginning of the state, but the rest of the drive was beautiful green rolling hill, farms, and several towns along the way. We hit some rain, and in a couple of spots it was a little difficult to see the road, but those spots didn't last too long. It wasn't nearly as bad as the rain we went through in Iowa two years ago.

We hit Topeka, Kansas, around 5:30 PST. We gassed up the car and noticed a frozen custard sign across the street. Since we hadn't eaten since breakfast, we accepted the invitation. We're not sure at which point the custard starts being so creamy and tasty, but it's just not made the same way here as it is in Nevada. It seems to us that the farther east you go, the better the frozen custard gets.

We didn't have much conversation in the car, because Sandy drove while Edie read a book, Glenn Beck's The Overton Window, out loud.

Below are some pictures from today's travels:

Yesterday we posted pictures of the beautiful Rocky Mountains on the west side of Denver. This is what the east side of Denver looks like. We were afraid that this scenery would be with us for the entire day, but thankfully Kansas is very scenic.

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