Day 5:
The day started out sunny and warm as we pulled out of Garden City Kansas but soon turned much cooler. The ride across Kansas was not the most exciting ride in the world as the roads were long and straight. The scenery changed little as the land is flat and bare as far as you can see. The smell of the cattle feed lots followed us across most of the state. Things began to change though as we neared the Colorado state line. The trees became more plentiful, the land started to rise and fall and the roads started to twist and turn a bit. Once in Colorado we made our first sight seeing stop of the trip. We visited Lamar Colorado to see the gas station made of petrified wood that is in the above photo of Kathy and I. It is just an empty building now. Just a few blocks away was a park with a statue of the "Madonnas of the Trail" (see above) this statue is one of twelve across the country honoring the contributions of the pioneer women who helped build this country, The statues are all the same but each one has it's own inscription. After our visit there it was on to Pueblo, Colorado.
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