It’s been a few more days, and we’re almost home.  We woke up in Dodge City Wednesday morning, dressed in our finest cowboy gear, and headed for Boot Hill.  There, they have a … more

Our trip this morning began in a good way – with a slow drive through the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs.  This park contains a bizarre landscape of orange sedimentary rock … more

Today was filled with fun.  To start off, we got dressed, ate breakfast in the hotel buffet, then drove over to catch the cog railway from Manitou Springs to the top of Pike’s … more

The drive up to Fort Garland was pretty short, only ninety miles or so.  On the way, we passed a church of some sort on a hill.  Amy commented on it, so we stopped long enough to take a … more

Yesterday we cleared out of Guymon and started on the road to Taos, New Mexico.  The landscape was mostly flat high prairie, though we started seeing more and more ‘topography’ as … more

The biggest thing on the list for today was the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, in Oklahoma City:

Funded in part by oil money, the place is frickin’ huge, modern and … more

Today we sauntered back over to Thorncrown Chapel, and sat for a few minutes absorbing the ambience.  The building is intended to make you feel as if you’re sitting out in the woods, and … more

After breakfast at the hotel buffet, we got on the road around 9:30 AM.  The roads were bumpy most of the way to Little Rock, and we saw quite a bit of flooded farmland.  We passed … more