07-30-2022, 08:08 AM
Going North:
The Canada trip has been three years in the waiting. Original date was thwarted with the advent of Covid and closed borders. This year, finally, the Canadian border is opened and I had the green light. The idea is to revisit Lake Louise, hike above the lake into the mountains and get the perfect photograph of the rockies. Let's see what happens:
Leaving Eureka, I head north and west. Out the door with first light and into the Kansas flat farm country. Through Wichita with Glen Campbell ringing in my head. I end up in the town of Dighton, KS population 960 and get a room at the Heritage Hotel. The place is old and could use some attention, but I get a good sleep, and that's what counts.:
Looking around the town there is a grain storage place, so I have a look and talk to a guy working there. As you know these things are all over the farm country. But we easterners are pretty ignorant about this stuff. This place has a capacity of 16 point something million bushels of grain. That's hard for me to wrap my head around. How much grain is needed to feed the country and maybe a bit of the whole world?
The next morning and two hours into the ride I cross into Colorado
But not the fun part of the state. More flat!
Past Colorado Springs the mountains begin as I head north on route 9, over Wilkerson pass at about 9000 feet. End of the day brings the Hotel Eastin in Kremling, CO. Another old place, built originally in 1906, this hotel is nicely kept. The room has no a/c but there is a sink. Bathroom is down the hall. With over night temperatures scheduled for the 30's it's just a matter of opening the window for a comfortable night. Check it out:
The Canada trip has been three years in the waiting. Original date was thwarted with the advent of Covid and closed borders. This year, finally, the Canadian border is opened and I had the green light. The idea is to revisit Lake Louise, hike above the lake into the mountains and get the perfect photograph of the rockies. Let's see what happens:
Leaving Eureka, I head north and west. Out the door with first light and into the Kansas flat farm country. Through Wichita with Glen Campbell ringing in my head. I end up in the town of Dighton, KS population 960 and get a room at the Heritage Hotel. The place is old and could use some attention, but I get a good sleep, and that's what counts.:
Looking around the town there is a grain storage place, so I have a look and talk to a guy working there. As you know these things are all over the farm country. But we easterners are pretty ignorant about this stuff. This place has a capacity of 16 point something million bushels of grain. That's hard for me to wrap my head around. How much grain is needed to feed the country and maybe a bit of the whole world?
The next morning and two hours into the ride I cross into Colorado
But not the fun part of the state. More flat!
Past Colorado Springs the mountains begin as I head north on route 9, over Wilkerson pass at about 9000 feet. End of the day brings the Hotel Eastin in Kremling, CO. Another old place, built originally in 1906, this hotel is nicely kept. The room has no a/c but there is a sink. Bathroom is down the hall. With over night temperatures scheduled for the 30's it's just a matter of opening the window for a comfortable night. Check it out: