It's Hump Day in Rawlins, Wyoming! Do you understand this?!

Today was quite a marathon.  We traveled 770 miles, were in 3 unfamiliar states (Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming), and gained an hour.  Let's do a run-down of each state, shall we?

Kansas was grey, just like they said in The Wizard of Oz.  It was still inexplicably better than Missouri, though.  There isn't really much you can say about Kansas.  Kansas City is pretty cool, though.  I know, I know, it's in Missouri, but it totally should break up with Missouri and be with Kansas.  Kansas City can do better than that trash.  Also, there were a ton of cops in Kansas.  I think they are kind of paranoid there.  Everywhere we went (gas stations, hotels, restaurants), they had signs about video surveillance.

Colorado was pretty cool.  We got our first view of the Rockies.  A TUMBLEWEED ROLLED ACROSS THE ROAD IN FRONT OF OUR CAR.  We saw wind farms and oil wells and ANTELOPES.  Yes, it was all very exciting.  Also, we ate at Taco John's for the first time ever.  It's basically Taco Bell, but more expensive.  Plus they have hash browns (?).  And the sky seemed bigger somehow than in Kansas.  Dunno what that was all about.

Wyoming is incredibly beautiful.  There was still snow on the ground up in the mountains.  The driving was pretty intense because of the changes in elevation, and there were these crazy wind gusts.  The Versa was barely up to the task.  But Ben did a good job with it.  We passed by the Sinclair oil refinery (the logo features a dinosaur!), which was pretty sweet.  Now we are staying at some crazy hotel where the front desk is IN the diner.  It's nice enough.  We were going to get a hump day treat at McDonald's, but couldn't get up once we got in the hotel.  We're exhausted, plus it's real cold outside.  But we're going to take it a little easier the next 2 days, so it should be good.

P.S.  Nobody has broken a limb or been snatched by an eagle yet.