February 28, 2025
We left Colorado on Tuesday morning (February 25). We took our fully charged walkie talkies and used them to communicate as I followed the U-Haul in Cliff the Big Red Truck.
We stopped at a truck stop in Colorado so Bruce and I could take a bio break. As we were heading back to the trucks, I noticed an accident that had happened while we were in the truck stop. A truck trailer had come off the truck. The driver was putting out the emergency triangles as we were getting into our trucks.
We had to creep around the truck trailer to get to the exit.
We rolled past the signs, “Leaving Colorful Colorado” and the “Welcome to Kansas”.
We stopped at the Kansas Travel Information Center. They had a lovely center and free coffee!
On we rolled down I-70. Kansas takes good care of I-70 roadbed and has rest areas spaced a nice distance apart. We stopped at a rest area in the Kansas Smoky Hills Region.
We spent the night in Topeka, Kansas. We got up the next morning and drove to Miner, Missouri. It is just a tad east of Sikeston, Missouri.
The hotel was non-smoking. Unfortunately, some jerk was smoking in a bathroom and the cigarette smoke came through the vent into our bathroom. Since cigarette smoke can give me a migraine, I called down to the front desk and reported it. They weren’t able to find the smoker. We closed the bathroom door to keep the smoke in the bathroom.
In the morning, I opened the bathroom door to a smoky cigarette haze! I backed out and closed the door. Bruce grabbed our stuff out of the bathroom so I wouldn’t have to go into the bathroom. I used the public restroom.
We complained at the front desk. We wanted to make it clear we weren’t the smokers. We didn’t want to get charged the $100 fee for smoking.
From there, it was a four hour drive home. We stopped and ate breakfast/lunch at a Wendy’s in Savannah, Tennessee. We were about an hour and a half from home.
We made it safely home at 12:10 PM. Bruce got the U-Haul parked with the rear door facing the front of the garage door. I parked Cliff the Big Red Truck in our driveway circle after Bruce finished parking.
We tested up a bit and took Nox for a walk around Blackberry Homestead.
Blackberry Homestead 
We’ve been to that visitor center in Kansas. We have pictures with the Oz characters. 🙂
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It is a cool set up for the for pictures with the Oz characters. My selfies didn’t turn out that great. I should’ve gotten Bruce to take a picture for me.
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I am sure it is good to be back home again! And how awful to have all your bathroom items smelling like cigarette smoke. That smell is just horrible.
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It was a relief to get home. It was just awful to have our bathroom full of cigarette smoke. The entire hotel was non-smoking and some smoker felt it didn’t matter. I could see it at that nasty Motel 6 where they had smoking rooms.
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I’m so glad you are home safely.
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Thank you. Our drive home was mostly uneventful.
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Wow, smoke coming through the bathroom vent. I would be very upset about that too. And also not wanting to get charged a penalty.
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I was so upset. I felt lucky that I didn’t get a migraine from all that smoke.
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