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xcountry – Day 7
2022 Aug 21 – Pueblo, CO to Denver, CO- Kelly State Count – still 10 The first stop of the day was Colorado Springs and The Garden of the Gods. Wow! Descriptions won’t do it justice, so just take a peak at the pictures below. It’s nestled right into and amidst the community and neighborhoods.…
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xcountry – Day 6
2022 Aug 20 – Dodge City, KS to Pueblo, CO – Kelly State Count – 10 I feel like I was too hard on Dodge City yesterday. Not taking anything back, but the people here seem very happy, and there are some cool old buildings and interesting cowboy history (ie. the original Boot Hill Cemetery…
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xcountry – Kel’s Comments – Bargain Hotels w Dog
Before we left, Jim and I set an aggressive goal for our cross country hotel budget. Because both of us are competitive, and neither of us wanted to be “the quitter” or to be deemed weak or the “bougie one” the topic of upping our hotel game never came up, and we stuck with our…
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xcountry – Day 5
2022 Aug 19 – Kansas City, MO to Dodge City, KS – Kelly State Count – 9 This was one of our longest drives at around 6 hours, but the diversity of the scenery made it fly by… oh wait, it was flat-flat-flat and about 200 miles without a town. Even with the pretty, big…
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xcountry – Jim’s 2 cents – Day 4 & Bacon
Lurking in the back of my mind as we made our way across the country was the question of whether we might stumble across a place that we’d like better than Southern California as a retirement destination. Impossible? Probably. After all, it’s home to the country’s best weather, finest beaches, defending Super Bowl champs, and…
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xcountry – Day 4
2022 Aug 18 – Hannibal, MO to Kansas City, MO – Kelly State Count – 8 Hitting the road early in search of some “better-than-third-rate-hotel-lobby” coffee we found ourselves in Macon, MO. This small town (2-4 blocks in the middle of the plains) is nicknamed “Maple City” because a long time ago there was a…
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xcountry – Jim’s 2 Cents – Day 3 & Indy
Nobody could drive through Indianapolis without stopping to see the Motor Speedway, the iconic Brickyard, home of the Indy 500, the most well-attended single-day sporting event in the world with more than 300,000 spectators. As I stood in the interior parking lot, content with taking a few pictures that failed to capture Indy’s massive scale…
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xcountry – Day 3
2022 Aug 17 – Dayton, OH to Indianapolis, IN to Hannibal, MO- Kelly State Count – 6 We saw the pretty, brick, stadium where the Colts play, but the highlight of the day was our stop at the Indy 500 Speedway. On a whim, we signed up for a private tour so we could get…
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xcountry – Day 2
2022 Aug 16 – Washington, PA to Columbus, OH, to Dayton, OH. – Kelly State Count – 5 THE Ohio State football stadium was SO big (see picture of Jim and Pasha standing at the door of one entrance.) We grabbed some actual Buckeyes from the memorial grove just outside the stadium where it’s a…
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xcountry – Day 1
2022 Aug 25 – Kelly At the time of this (almost) initial posting, we are 10 days into this cross country trip and already 9 days behind on this journal. Typical! It’s been a learning experience – traveling with the dog – and, quite frankly, we were pretty tired from prepping for the move! Because…
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