17 October 2014 - Wyoming before home

We left Kansas today and entered into Colorado.  As we passed through such a large section of Kansas, the terrain was nearly flat with fields and farms, and according to Ronda, rather blah.  But that is the nature of the Great Prairie.  We looked to see what we could find of interest and came up with Goodland, KS.  It is billed as the sunflower capital of Kansas.  We pulled off the freeway and the first thing we saw was this.

 An artist painted and donated to this city a massive copy of the Van Gogh painting of Sunflowers in a Vase.  It must be about 4 stories high.  It is a good reproduction and well done.  However, when we went into the city, we could not find much at all about sunflowers.  We were surprised at the lack of sunflower emphasis in the "Sunflower Capital".  It was interesting that the main street was paved with bricks for blocks. If they had been yellow instead of red, we would have been looking for Oz.  The town is sleepy and not much going on; rather cute but did not have much to offer. 

However, as we left the town to return to the freeway, we found an old Mobile Gas Station that is in the process of being restored.

Itr had the old sign and nearby were a number of signs from other old, now defunct, oil companies.  This restoration is still in process, but was a delightful find.







On the wall of the station was a small sign from a company I had not heard of, White Oil Gasoline.  I enjoyed this find.


When we left Goodland, we crossed the border into Colorado. The eastern portion of the state is but a continuation of the flat plains like Kansas.


We put the Yukon in cruise control and let the miles flow past.  We reached the outskirts of Denver and could see, through the haze, the beautiful Rockies lifting high in the distance.  We turned north and moved into Wyoming, near Cheyenne.  From there, it is I-80 towards home.

We drove perhaps the longest distance of the trip.  We covered most of Kansas and Colorado today and well into Wyoming, all the way to Rawlins.  Tomorrow we plan to make it home.