Palm Springs Road Trip

We left at 9:25 for the first time and had to turn around 5 minutes later when April called to ask, “did you forget the pizza?”  Doh!  My friend Ed loves Lou Malnati’s pizza so there was no option but to turn around for it.  Luckily we wern’t far from home. After jamming the pizzas in the car we left for the second time at 9:38. We came very close to being forced to deploy the alternate transportation method (bikes) just north of Springfield after pushing the gas gauge to the red and beyond.

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Day 20: August 2nd, 2014 Great Sand Dunes, CO to Clark State Lake, KS

This was our last morning among the mountains at 8,000 feet.  Sand Dunes National Park was such a unique landscape with mountains, forests, wetlands, and desert sand dunes.   It is so unique they even have a beetle that lives no where else in the world except here.  I’m not much of a beetle fan, the insects not the music, but this was one cool looking beetle.

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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!