Another travel day! Two in a row, both over 300 miles. Ugh!

No photos today, not much to look at – both Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas are just flat. Fortunately, no excitement either, except maybe the one time when I was tooling along, on cruise control (actually set to the exact speed limit!), passing a couple of vehicles, when we saw two cop cars in the median – a local cop and a highway patrol. Just as I passed, the highway patrol pulled around, he’d been facing West, and he made a U-turn to face East. Barri got nervous, asked me if he was chasing me down, but no, he was just parking himself East-bound. Whew! I knew I was fine the whole time!

Tomorrow, we head back West an hour to Wilson State Park, so Barri can ride Switchgrass. Woohoo! Well, me too, since last time I rode very little of it. I’m looking forward to it. I think we should push ourselves to ride all of it – it’s only 22 miles!

By the way – Hooray for Utah!!!

Well, I’m pissed it took them this long, but as we neared our destination today, we heard on the radio that Utah basically said “Screw the Federal Government. We need these National Parks open, so we are going to fund them until the Feds get their shit together”. I may have paraphrased a little bit, but I’m positive that’s what he meant. And supposedly, four other States have followed suit. Not California, ’cause they’re broke, but five REAL States have taken matters into their own hands. Good for them! The Feds better watch out, or the States will figure they don’t NEED the Federal Government, or at least most of what the Feds do. I’d love to see this shrink the living daylights out of the Federal Government. It was NEVER supposed to do as much as it tries to do.

Ok, end of rant.