As all of you know, Geogal is in Alaska as I write this. I'm not here to lament, nor give a summary of her adventures. Rather I will just point out that this past Saturday morning, in which Geoana and I went to the nearby state park for the annual kids fun day (translation: free admission and free outdoor activities), the morning low in our town was 39. Degrees. Fahrenheit.
Just for fun I looked on the Net for the morning low in Fairbanks. 45. Projected high for Alaska's second-largest city? 82?
High for us in our Northwest Kansas town the same day? Didn't even get out of the 60's. Who woulda thunk it that a location in Alaska would be warmer than one in the lower 48? At the beginning of June?
Saturday also was very cloudy and very windy, combined with the cool temps. Built character. However the following day dawned with clear skies, calm winds, and more June-type degrees. I'm sure the local park superintendent (whom we know) was cursing the weather gods.
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On the way to Denver (which is where Geogal caught her plane to The Last Frontier) I decided to engage all of us in the license plate game. Not a bad way to kill 5 hours on the highway. Plus the child and I continued it until we again saw our own front door.
Ready for the roll call?
Kansas (of course)
Nebraska (not hard around here)
Colorado (natch)
Texas
North Dakota
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Washington
South Dakota
Wyoming
Arizona
California
Iowa
Louisiana
Illinois
Ohio
North Carolina
Florida
Indiana
Missouri
Nevada
New York
Montana
Arkansas
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Utah
Oklahoma
Idaho
New Jersey
Oregon
and....Alaska! (Yep. Spotted in the parking lot of Wal-Mart in Aurora, Colorado)
Maybe it would have been easier to list the states we didn't see. Pretty much the entire central and western US was accounted for.
Nice to know we don't always have to have a movie going during a road trip. Plus, we get to duplicate the journey at the end of this month when Geogal returns.
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