Another long driving day - about 450 miles - across Colorado into Kansas...and then more Kansas...and then more Kansas. It's true what they say about Kansas - it just keeps going on forever and is so very flat. We're in Abilene tonight, all tucked up in the newest, spiffiest hotel in town, the Holiday Inn Express. Lots of fields of amber waving grain, grain elevators every few miles, oil wells pumping, cows, horses, and just a picture of middle America. Some of the sitings- -signs alternately saying Jesus Loves You and Abortion Is Murder every few miles -a large billboard saying Jesus Restores, Pornography Destroys...right next to an adult store -signs for a local zoo featuring a six legged steer, a five legged cow and other assorted oddities - we're wondering about inbreeding... Abilene seems to
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