It is Tuesday evening and we are in Goodland, Kansas which was our planned stop for the evening. We had debated going further but the sky was looking nasty and after yesterday's out break of tornadoes and storm through Oklahoma and Kansas --- we decided to not test the water. Now however, the sky has turned a beautiful blue. The wind, on the other hand, is kicking butt!

We had a great travel day over all though. Not quite the miles we did yesterday though. We crossed the Rocky Mountains and there was a lot of 55 mph zone, some construction, and then when we reached Vail, CO, the snow was deep on the mountains and beside the roads. It was 32 degrees and snowing and even the snow removal truck were in action. No way was I going to risk "black ice" so I kept right at the posted speed limits. Ms. Kate probably took a hundred pictures with her IPhone as we drove along.

Next we reached Denver and we drove straight through there like we actually knew what we were doing. Once out of Denver, if you've never driven I-70, we were in flat prairie country. The topography of this beautiful country is just astounding; rugged mountain to rolling prairie in no time at all. I don't know how many million years each one of God's "days" were but God does good work.

Our hotel last night was barely OK. It qualified as a hotel since it had a bed and we paid to sleep in it. But it was a Clarion Inn which is on the bottom half of the Choice Hotel chain. Of course we were leaving a five star hotel to drop down to this. Tonight, we are in a Comfort INN & Suites place and it is much better. We gone ahead and decided to do laundry that has accumulated for the past two weeks. It will minimize what we have to do when we get home.

Tomorrow we'll drive across Kansas and plan to stop in Independance MO. If the weather holds nicely, maybe we can make it even further. That would shorten our travel day on Thursday and get us home sooner. We are ready to be home in our own beds and rumbling around in our own house.

I must lift up those folks who were hit by the tornadoes last night. I understand that one person was killed and tonight they were showing damage at a small town in KY close to our home. I would ask that God lay a calming hand on the storms.

That's it to today. Have a peaceful evening. Share God's love.