Moving from Travel Time to Family Time

The last leg of our trip back to Oklahoma is through the eastern edge of Colorado, and then across the state line into Kansas.

We drove through the southwestern corner of Kansas on this cloudy day, where the horizon is totally flat and we can see for miles. It's a good thing that we enjoy the changing agricultural scene around us, because that's all there is to see in this section of the state. We love the rust-colored fields of maize that are almost ready for harvest in the fall.

The crop below was new to us, as we have never seen an onion field being harvested in Kansas.

We met countless trucks filled with silage, as the corn stalks were coming down in the fields on both sides of the highway.

It must have been a good corn harvest, because the grain elevators are full and the excess grain is being dumped into massive round mounds on the ground.

We didn't make any stops on this final leg, and we didn't pass through any cities. The only skyscrapers in this section of Kansas would be the tall grain elevators that are evidence of the importance of agriculture to western Kansas.

We always pick up speed as we get closer to our old stomping grounds. We've seen these little towns many times before, and they're not exactly on the tourist bucket list even for first-timers. It wasn't long before we crossed the Oklahoma state line into the panhandle.

We pulled into Beaver County, Oklahoma, where both of us were born and raised. Our mothers still live here, and we're planning to stay for a while. We tucked our motor home into its parking space on the ranch--between the house and the tornado shelter. Welcome to Oklahoma! Because of upcoming cold weather, we had to winterize the motor home sooner than usual.

Our motor home travel season is officially over until we head south after the holidays. So blog entries will be less frequent as we change from travel time to family time. We had a great time on our trip to the Canadian Rockies, but we like a little time in the plains of the Midwest as well.