The 918 Mile Journey Back Home

The car packed, GPS charged, house cleaned, car filled up with gas, and we're ready to go at 6:42 am sharp! Half asleep, we pull into the small town of Pratt with a craving for an amazing cinnamon roll. We find an AMAZING cinnamon role at a restaurant that has been there since 1857 and survived two fires. After some antique stores, a cinnamon roll, and a coffee, we're on the road once again. This time to the fascinating town of Greensburg. In 2007 the town with a population of 775 was hit with an EF5 tornado, wiping out 95% of the town and killing 11 people between the ages of 46 and 84. Greensburg is home to the world's largest hand dug well (http://www.bigwell.org) at 109 feet deep and 32 feet
wide. It is an amazing site to see and walk down into. You can not only walk into the well but can climb a story above the well and see what the town has rebuilt and is still rebuilding. Greensburg is now the greenest city in the world and a truly fascinating town to visit. After more antiquing and an art gallery, back on the road we go. After hours of driving through run down towns, and on a 2 lane highway with a car passing about every hour or so, we end up in Trinidad, Colorado. We drive up to the excellent Days Inn and Suites owned by a local couple, unpack, I turn on the NBA Finals, my mom orders amazing Chinese food and we Greensburg Tornado Video
relax for the night. Best hotel experience in a long time! We finally turn off the tv and go to sleep after a long, tiring day with the perfect mix of excitement and relaxation. The next morning we pack the car back up, still loaded with candles and barbecue sauce for the gallery, get more coffee and another cinnamon roll and head back to Flagstaff! That day was really pretty boring besides the quick stop in Santa Fe for lunch and art galleries, and yes, even more antiquing. Ahhhh finally home! Time to rest for the remainder of the summer and just have fun! NOPE! After we unpack, we have to frantically clean for family coming in the next morning! This trip was amazing in every aspect and everything we did. Including staying in Topeka for 3 days, seeing family and friends, going to little towns and looking around, eating at the best diner in the world, antiquing every chance we got, and of course driving for a total of 3,200 miles!
-Jay