We left Missouri the day after our brewery tour with a few days driving ahead of us. The first day was a few hours to a park just outside Kansas City. The drive was pretty similar the next day, about 4 hours. We had to detour a bit north to go through the corner of Iowa and Nebraska before heading south again to a place near Kansas City. This time we were west of the city in the actual state of Kansas.
We stayed in Kansas again the next day, a bit further south where it was surprisingly a lot warmer than it had been. This campground was one of the best we have stayed at. It had its own fishing lakes which I enjoyed. I spent a few hours with a bit of luck...good and bad.
Our next stop was in Oklahoma another 4 hours away. We were staying at another good campground which had its own par 3 golf course which I had a go on.
We only had one more drive before our 3 night stay in Amarillo, Texas. We were really looking forward to this partly because we had been doing a lot of driving and not much else for a few days. But also because we had found some good things to do. We had read about a famous steak restaurant on route 66 called the 'Big Texan'. http://www.bigtexan.com
We stayed in Kansas again the next day, a bit further south where it was surprisingly a lot warmer than it had been. This campground was one of the best we have stayed at. It had its own fishing lakes which I enjoyed. I spent a few hours with a bit of luck...good and bad.
Our next stop was in Oklahoma another 4 hours away. We were staying at another good campground which had its own par 3 golf course which I had a go on.
We only had one more drive before our 3 night stay in Amarillo, Texas. We were really looking forward to this partly because we had been doing a lot of driving and not much else for a few days. But also because we had found some good things to do. We had read about a famous steak restaurant on route 66 called the 'Big Texan'. http://www.bigtexan.com
They do a 72 ounce steak which is free if you finish it (and all the side dishes) within a hour. We didn't try it but I had a 24 ounce which was pretty chunky but it tasted amazing. We saw some people taking on the challenge though...
Something else we had wanted to do for a while is play disc golf. Basically like regular golf but with specialised frisbees and instead of holes they have baskets. We found a course in Amarillo so we got some discs and headed there. It was really fun as its pretty relaxed and wasn't busy at all when we played. It can be pretty tricky..I definitely need some practise anyway! Though Geo did lose a disc in the creek which I had to fish out with my fishing rod! We will be going again if we can find a course though.
We left Amarillo this morning with a 5 hour drive ahead of us to our stop just past Albuquerque. We were on the same road for nearly 300 miles and most of it was the historic route 66. So we are now in New Mexico, our 37th state, and in Mountain Time zone. 7 hours behind the UK.
Tomorrow is one of our longest drives but will be well worth it. We are heading to Monument Valley on the Utah/Arizona border. We'll be going via the four corners monument which is the point where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona meet.
Hahahaha I love that you had to fish his disc out with a rod..hahahahahahaha
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