From Oakley we continued on I-70 West toward Green River, Utah. We climbed slowly from the Kansas plains to the foothills of the Colorado Rockies in a matter of hours. The terrain as we climbed changed from a flat, boring unchanging scene to breath-taking views and dizzying heights. We had lunch while sitting in the car admiring the dusting of snow that had fallen the night before. After a quick lunch of sandwiches, we stopped off to visit Buffalo Bill's grave,...

The morning of Day 2 we got a fairly early start at about 9:30 a.m. We drove through Missouri on I-70, and it was pretty darn boring. We saw endless farms, and lots of the rolling hills, until the terrain flattened out, and then it got REALLY boring. The two highlights of the day: driving through Kansas City, and seeing the electricity-generating turbines. They looked like lazy acrobats, turning over and over very slowly. Oh yeah, it rained…. We got to Oakle...

We left Christiansburg, VA at about 7:30 a.m. EDT and headed toward our first stop Jessamine County, KY. Yep, my grandmother, Jessamine Lyndsey Kane, was named after Jessamine County, and I am her namesake. Anyway we decided to take a short side trip from I-64 West in Lexington, Kyto visit the Jessamine County Jail in Nicholasville, and take a few snaps. Talk about sketchy, we got out of the car long enough to take exactly two pictures. All the while, fearing t...

Only one week to go before we hit the road for Las Vegas! This is the first post to a travel journal we're going to try to maintain during our three week trip out West and back. New entries will be posted to Facebook and also through email. If you'd rather not receive any emails, let us know we'll take you off the list. This weekend we started doing some packing for the trip. There's a lot of stuff to bring for a cross country road trip. Here's what we have...