August 28 - 29, 2019 - Goodland and Salina, KS - Homeward Bound

August 28 - 29, 2019 - Goodland and Salina, KS - Homeward Bound


Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - Goodland, Kansas.

We left Estes Park at 9:05am (Mountain Time) and headed east toward Kansas.  We took a slightly different route on the way home to bypass a portion of I-25.  It was a long ride and I only took a few pictures since we were on this same road earlier this month.

I love these old homesteads on the prairies.  

leaving Colorado

back in Kansas

The big easel in Goodland, KS

We arrived at the Goodland KOA at 4:19pm (still on Mountain Time).  It was a long drive today.  I-70 was closed from Limon, CO to Siebert, CO.  This required us to detour on 287 to 50, but somehow we missed 50 due to another road construction within the town we should have headed north on.  We took another road to Burlington, CO.  It wasn't a bad ride - just a long one for us.  

We asked the gentleman at the KOA if he knew why it was closed.  They are doing road construction on I-70 and he thought it might have to do with that, but he wasn't sure.

We pulled into our site, #62.  Once we were set up and had the air conditioners on, which we really needed here at 85 degrees - we left to get fuel and stop at the grocery store.  We had run out of bottled water.  We like taking it in the truck while traveling.
  
After those errands, we had to take a driving tour of Goodland.  Neither of us had ever visited here before.  One thing we both noticed and commented about was the brick streets that were very smooth and easy to drive on in the downtown area.  That was very impressive.  

And of course we had to drive by to see "The Big Easel".

Once we returned I did another load of clothes - trying to make sure everything is clean before we are without sewer hookups soon.

It was a quiet restful evening, knowing we had to travel again tomorrow.


Thursday, August 29, 2019 - Salina, KS

We left Goodland at 9:47am and pointed the truck and Bentley east, hoping to make better time today....and we did; but not before we had breakfast at The Bricks by Meg.

This was a very nice building.  The metal ceiling is original to the building.  It has a full basement as well.  Someone has taken very good care of this structure over the years.  A big plus for the community.

The food was pretty good.  I had a biscuit, and a scrambled egg covered with gravy, with bacon and hash browns on the side.  Unfortunately, the hash browns had onions in them.  I picked most of them out and mixed them in the gravy.  They were pretty good that way.  I really wish I liked onions.

Again, I only took a few pictures, since we've already covered this area earlier this month in our travels.

Farming Country!

We arrived at the Salina KOA at 2:18PM.  We are now back on Central Time.  When we were in West Yellowstone, a lady working in the concession area for the IMAX theatre found out we were from Kansas and asked if we ever stayed at the Salina KOA.  Joyce and I both said we had.  I told her we were stopping there on our way back as well.  She wanted to know if I would give a note to her friends who worked there and scribbled a note on a piece of paper.   After we arrived and had checked in, I asked if the people mentioned in the note were working.  He told me no one by that name worked there or had worked there.  Interesting.  I carried that note all this time, and there was no one to receive it.  

Once we were parked, we took a tour of Salina.  While we've been here before we really have not taken the time to see much of the city.  I've attended numerous meetings here over the years, but we usually went to the hotel, a nearby restaurant for dinner and back to the hotel.  Several years ago, my daughter lived in Galva, KS and Salina is where our first grandson Logan David was born.   We did happen to drive by the hospital.  What a wonderful day that was!  

We returned to the RV Park where I continued doing laundry most of the evening.  Tomorrow we will be back in the Southeast Kansas area.