Heading South

 

Sunday morning we crossed into Kansas. When we reached Hays, we turned south after a brief stop at Fort Hays State Historic Site.

We continued south to Fort Larned National Historic Site, where we stopped for a longer visit. Fort Larned was built in 1860 to protect travel on the Santa Fe Trail from hostile Native Americans, and served that purpose for almost 20 years before it was abandoned.

From there we continued mostly south to Tulsa Oklahoma. I was hoping to eat dinner at a Hard Rock Cafe there, but learned when we got there that the location only had a casino and hotel, so we ate at a Freddy’s nearby. We decided to drive all night to give us more time in Florida. It was raining hard with lots of lightning until we reached Arkansas. We continued southeast through Mississippi and got to Mobile Alabama the next morning.  

We stopped at the Memorial Battlefield park in Mobile to stretch our legs a bit, although we didn't tour the USS Alabama there, then continued east into Florida.

Across the USA again

Once it was clear they would be staying at Disney until at least the summer, the kids started asking about bringing them another car. I was able to get a few days off at the end of March, so we hit the road on our seventh trip across the U.S. We spent Friday driving to Utah with few stops.

   

After spending the night in Heber City, we continued east to Dinosaur National Monument. We spent a few hours checking out the visitor center and the "Wall of Bones" building, then continued east into Colorado.

We stopped for a bit in Steamboat Springs, then continued on into Denver. 

We ate dinner Saturday night at the Hard Rock downtown (this was the 18th we've been to) and walked around a bit, then drove a few more hours before stopping for the night.