Start time: 8:45 a.m. MST.
Cheryl proved why she should always drive in the morning when I took a wrong turn that led to a 20-minute detour through downtown Denver. But, we finally got everything straightened out and hit the road. The majority of the day was through Kansas, which was flat, boring and filled with homemade pro-life billboards. We didn't think we'd be stopping anywhere between Boulder and Kansas City, but then we started seeing signs advertising a place with a live, 6-legged steer. How could we pass that up?!?
The place was called Prairie Dog Town and it also features goats, pigs, all kinds of birds, coyotes, badgers, raccoons, foxes, buffaloes, rabbits, rattlesnakes and a miniature donkey. Admission was just $6.95 and the woman working there was nice enough to tie plastic grocery bags to our feet to protect our shoes from the mud.
The prairie dogs were cute and the mutant cows were interesting, but the rest of the place was kind of sad. It's no zoo and seeing all the animals in little cages made Cheryl bummed out.
Mr. Bill, on the other hand, had a great time. The gift shop was filled with all kinds of interesting items. I picked up a back scratcher, which will certainly come in handy in Durham, as I'm always begging Cheryl to itch my back. Cheryl got in the spirit of the place by trying on a hat, but we only got a magnet for ourselves.
We couldn't stay too long, as we still had several hours of driving left on our way to Kansas City. We kept on truckin' through Kansas and finally rolled into Kansas City at about 8:30. But it wasn't time to head for the hotel. Oh no...we had a mission! Before the road trip, I found a Web site called Roadside America that lists all kinds of interesting things near cities - touristy things you might want to see on a road trip like ours. What's in Kansas City, you ask? None other than the WORLD'S BIGGEST SHUTTLECOCK! Boo yeah!
It was awesome and it was also interesting to hear a loud buzzing noise while walking through the park. I had no idea what it was and was worried because we saw a cage full of rattlesnakes just a few hours earlier. Turns out it was locusts. Cheryl also saw her first firefly, which she absolutely loved. She tried to take a video of them and here it is (look closely!):
After the shuttlecock, we went to dinner at the world famous Arthur Bryant's BBQ. I had been there before and it was even better this time around, which is surprising because I had very fond memories of the place to begin with! I was also very happy to see a mural on the building next door of one of my heroes, Buck O'Neil.
Miles driven: 700
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