A journey to go where no man has [happily] gone before....Kansas

Yesterday was the long drive day, i think we covered 500 miles. We went through all of Missouri and most of Kansas. Western Missouri was really fun to drive! For about forty miles there were these tiny rolling hills
(more like bumps) and it really kept me on my toes going through there. Then we got to Kansas....and....Kansas is beautiful! It's true there is nothing in Kansas, but we took route 36 through the north of Kansas instead of taking I-70 or I-80 and it was breathtakingly gorgeous. Even the beauty did lose its novelty a bit after 300 miles, but still we all enjoyed having the beautiful creation to look at =) While i was driving Tim got Sarah's camera out and took 1100 pictures in a matter of 2.5 hours! He got some really good shots. At one point we had to avoid a truck tire, so I pulled the car over and got the tire off the road (Sarah said I got man-points for doing that =P). Anyways Kansas was about the most beautiful drive I've ever had, it helped the incredible length of the drive to be more tolerable. In one town we stopped for lunch at McDonald's. It was directly attached to a gas station that had gas for $4.39! We had just bought gas for $3.59 only sixty miles before that and half a mile down the road every other gas station was $3.69. I was really surprised to see that someone was actually trying to make money that way when other gas was only less than a mile away. Another awesome thing we saw was in Marysville, KS there was a sign that had a black squirrel on it and said something in the scheme of "the Marysville black squirrels" it made me feel like i was back at Kent again =) One more great thing we saw was a sign that said "Route 36 Shortest distance from Indianapolis to Denver." Whats great about this sign is 1. it proves that we found the best route through Kansas *score* 2. the sign was in Kansas and it didn't even mention anything about anything Kansas, it was Kansas-void. It's like Kansas was saying "congratulations you found the best way to minimize your Kansas experience, i am gonna go continue to be boring now k thanks." Those are about the only interesting things we saw in Kansas. We got to Oberlin where we are staying in a historic bed and breakfast that looks like its straight out of the 1800's (search "Landmark Inn" on google). It was nice for all of us to hangout in the foyer, which we wouldn't have had available at a hotel, and watch Despicable Me. Anyways I am late for breakfast and eager to get to Colorado so look forward to a post from me late tonight.