Blogs from Kechi, Kansas, United States, North America

. It is another cold but sunny and clear morning - thankfully the wind is blowing a little in the “right” direction and the aroma from last night has disappeared. As they say in Dodge City it is the smell of “money,” but as we were not yet in Dodge City the smell was pure “Feedlot!” We are now officially on our “Mad Dash” back to Kechi, with only one “scheduled” stop along the way… Statistics Starting Destination: Lamar, Colorado Ending Destination: Kechi, Kansas Ending Destination GPS: N: 37° 47.875’ W: 97° 16.752’ Elev: 1380’ Miles Driven: 372.2 Estimated Total “Round Trip” Distance: 11,507.3 miles Follow the Yellow Brick Road Lamar is not very far from the Kansas, so we didn’t have to go far before we were back in Dorothy country and had to change ... read more

Rattling around the house.. Here we are, it is a Saturday night 2 to 3 weeks after we quit our jobs... We have packed up one set of boxes and driven them to San Antonio, Texas to be packed into a container (left) along with a 1971 Chevrolet step sided pick-up that Maria's brother is shipping to Australia. Packed a second set of boxes that we loaded into a "big" truck and drove to Manhattan, Kansas to put into a storage unit close to Carl's parents. Met with real estate agents about selling the house only to find out they think it will be easier to sell the house if we replace the deck, get rid of the cheezy 80's wallpaper in the kitchen and resign ourselves to potentially have to pay closing costs on ... read more