In St. Joseph, we stopped at the Pony Express museum. The Pony Express had its eastern terminus at St. Joseph. The Pony Express operated for less than two years, but is big in romance and the American imagination.
We stayed at a good campground that was more or less in town.
On Monday, we resumed driving West on US36. Our original plan was to drive NW on I-29, but flooding had closed the interstate, so our only practical route was due West. However, that meant that US36 was busy. The heavy traffic and construction meant slow travel for the first couple of hours.
We made a short detour to the "geographic center of the USA", with a monument and a tiny chapel.
On Monday afternoon, we were listening to the weather reports, including a tornado in the county we were headed towards. We later saw downed power lines, presumably from the storm. We stayed at Prarie Dog State Park, where we saw a cardinal and a brown thrasher.
Tuesday had us continuing on US36, essentially all the way to Boulder. The driving was enlivened by seeing Lark Buntings, the official state bird of Colorado. We also had unexpected anxiety about fuel, as the towns that we drove through in eastern Colorado had no operating businesses. We were relived to see the COOP (cooperative) in Anton, where we bought gas. A good trip, but we were glad to be home, as were our cats.
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