Los Angeles 2010 Trip - Day One

TRIP LOG, Day One:

8:10 - OFF! Slight smattering of snow, and some great sunlight breaking through the fog...

8:40 - forgot phone at home of Bob Dole, have to go all the way back to the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas

Noon Oh Five - stopped by multi-award winning campground, at town with the World's Largest Prairie Dog and giant Buffalo Bill Killing Buffalo sculpture

1:50 - passing through home of the World's Largest Cow Hairball, got a triple espresso to go...

3:15 - epiphany - waterparks will be the gooney golfs of the future. I know what I mean, will explain later...

3:16 - ROADSIDE/KANSAS ENTHUSIASTS QUADRUPLE WHAMMY!!!! An historic World's Largest Book, flanked by a Boy Scout Liberty, AND a Madonna of the Plains, with the starting line of the International Pancake Race all on the same property.

3:22 - LOVE LOVE LOVE it - Hwy 54 here is named Pancake Boulevard!

3:35 - Oklahoma

5:35 - Hwy 54 and TX 807 - Tex! has suspicious crotch hole...

7:00 - Bluebird Motel closed, but neon still there... Palamino instead!

9:45 - typing this.

 

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