We sort of fell into a plan. We headed due west from Kentucky, across Missouri, across Kansas, and we're heading for Colorado.
When we hit the Rockies, we'll work our way north to Rocky Mountain National park. Then, we'll start heading east again. The PNW will have to wait until another year.
Missouri was a pleasant surprise to us ignorant Yankees. I expected it to be like Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. But no, it was green and hilly and very pleasant. We camped in the Ozarks on Lake Truman near Lake of the Ozarks. It was nice.
Kansas so far has been boring. We are in Dodge City on Wyatt Earp Avenue, but it looks like any other American city.
The big exception was the Cosmoshpere in Hutchinson. We spent nearly 3 hours there today.
- It has 13000 artifacts from space.
- It has a real SR-71 blackbird. I had no idea they were so big. I have a picture of me touching it.
- They have real German V1 and V2 rockets.
- They have the X1 that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with.
- They have real Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules.
- They have the actual Appolo 13 command module restored to near original condition.
- It was more fun than the Smithsonian Air&Space museum on the mall in Washington DC.
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| Metropolis, IL |
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| Chester, IL |
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| The Cosmospere from outside |
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| My dream, me and a SR-71 |
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