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Today was just a driving day. We drove approximately 480 miles from Deer Creek RV Park in Kansas to a Wal-Mart in La Junta, CO where we are spending the night.
For those not familiar with RVing, Wal-Mart welcomes RVs in their parking lots over night as long as the town does not prohibit it. This is a very good option for RVers to spend the night. It provides a safe secure space in areas where there may be no campgrounds or they are booked. Also its an option when the campgrounds in the area are in such condition that staying in them would be more trouble than they are worth. When the shades in the RV go down, you are in your own world and it really does not matter where you are parked just to get some rest.
But back to the trip...The picture was taken at Trails West Historic site. Smokey Hill Trail - Cheyenne Wells Stage Stop. Here emigrants to the west would stop on their way to Denver. They would come via the Kansas & Smokey Hill River and turn here to take the valley towards Denver. This was a good break on the long drive today and we learn some history in the process.
We had planned to make it all the way to Walsenburg, but as we were approaching La Junta, there was a huge lightning/thunder storm straight ahead of us, bigger than I had never seen in my life. I slowed down, and prayed for the storm to pass from the area we were heading into. As we got closer, the worse of the storm had passed and at this point there was only light rain, because of this it got darker earlier and we decided to stop for the night.
We parked and decided to have dinner at a diner type restaurant right in the Wal-mart plaza. After dinner we headed inside Wal-mart to ask permission to spend the night and get a few things we needed.
Tomorrow we will travel the rest of the way on 160 to Mesa Verde National Park.
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