The sun was rising pink with lightning in the sky when we left Kanab and our friends Margaret and Nelson. A coyote walked across the road, and Les saw another basking on a rock. Our all-day drive took us through Page, AZ, by Four Corners, and over the Continental Divide at Wolf Creek Pass. The country kept changing, but continued to awe us. Our evening stop was at Riverbend Resort on the South Fork of the Rio Grande in Colorado. We just had time for a walk along the river before dark dropped down like a sledgehammer, and we cooked yams and leftover rice Barbara had packed for us. Tonight we needed our big comforter as the evening got cold. The lady who has the campground has a new grandchild in Houston, AK and told us that her father had invented the T@B camper like ours but sold the patent before these camp trailers “caught on.” Small world!
The next day we traveled a long stretch of prairie in southeastern Colorado. Les spotted two tarantulas walking across the road. There we no houses for miles, just beautiful, dry open scrub with a few cattle. Signs said “Land not for sale to ARMY!” Apparently the military wants this uninhabited area for missile testing, but it would ruin the ranches.
Kansas brought a different story: I saw my first feedlots. Thousands of cattle were in pens, eating and eating and eating. We did not get to tour one, but we saw over twenty lots, each by big grain elevators, and it seemed so big business and nothing like the long horns we saw grazing in a big field. I am thinking hard about eating commercial beef again! We are wondering what the cattle are fed.
Here we are at Dodge City, KS, at the Gunsmoke Trailer Park. Just ate a nice meal of vegetables. Tomorrow we’ll be in good old Missouri. This cowgirl is going to have a nice cool, windy Kansas sleep. Good night!
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