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Day 22: August 4th, 2014: Chase State Lake, KS to Rock Creek Campground, Iowa

A three state day!

Kansas, Missouri, and finally Iowa!

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Day 23: August 5th, 2014: Rock Creek Campground, Iowa to Home & Trip Wrap Up

End Trip Odometer: 99,113 Total Miles Traveled: 4,487 Gallons of Gas Consumed: 281.59 Total Gas Expense: $995.17 Average Cost of Gas: $3.53 Most Expensive Gas: $3.85 Least Expensive Gas: $3.29 Average Miles per Gallon: 15.82

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Day 1: July 14th, 2014: Happy Anniversary to Us!: Home to Anita State Park, Iowa

Beginning Mileage: 94,626

Official leaving time: 9:24 am

Official time “Are we there yet?” was first asked: 9:38 am

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Day 2: July 15th, 2014: Anita, Iowa to Pierce, Nebraska

Good Morning Iowa!

We started the day the perfect way with a little family snuggle time.  Snuggle time today eventually ended the way most family snuggle time does these days, with a tickling and wrestling fest.  Neither Scott nor I got up to exercise.  I think Scott was politely waiting for me and I slept in way longer than my usual internal summertime clock of 5:30.  That may have something to do with still being a little too sensitive to the sounds of passing freight trains, dogs barking, and the ranger asking the dogs to leave.  As with all trips I will eventually get tired enough and learn to sleep through the new noises.

July 2012 - RAGBRAI

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Day 2: Friday, June 4th – The Great River Road

We were up and moving by nine.  At Grant’s home we had our first “asphalt picnic”.  We didn’t intend to eat out of the van in the parking lot.  Scott asked Brooke if she wanted a snack, and before we knew it we were eating for an hour.  We found a beautiful park five minutes down the road. :-)