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honeymoon - day 8, saturday, may 4, 2002
day 8 - saturday, may 4 2002 hays, KS to st. louis, MO After visiting the Hays, KS Wal-Mart (perdon -- it was the SUPER WalMart FoodCenter), we headed back on I70 towards Topeka, Kansas City, and St. Louis. I had looked up Kansas on http://www.roadsideamerica.com, and found that two stops on our route, Salina and Junction City both had some sites in them. I slept through the Salina attraction -- which is the "Bones of Seymour" -- an elephant that went on a rampage from circus in 1920, and was killed after being shot with 15 doses of poison and 15 steel-tipped bullets. Oh well. Junction City had an "Atomic Cannon" -- which was a short-lived weapon made by the gubment during the cold war -- it could lob a tactical atomic weapon 7 miles. The prototype was only fired once, thankfully. However, in my infinite wisdom, I didn't get detailed directions to the site of the Atomic Cannon, and we couldn't find it. However, there was yet another Air Force Base, which Kelly and I didn't really want to go on -- i think the atomic cannon lay behind its walls. At least i was within a couple of miles of an Atomic Cannon. On through Topeka and Kansas City. Outside of Kansas City, we stopped into a Chinese buffet. It sucked. Bad. Louisville is blessed quality ethnic restaurants. We also have our share of crappy ones, sure, but they are outweighed by the good ones, at least. Back on the road, between Kansas City and St. Louis, we were travelling about 80 MPH when we were all of the sudden passed on the left (in the emergency lane) by some nutball. He continued on down the road, braking erradically and swerving and what-not. He seemed to be a little intoxicated -- okay, he was sloshed. I called 911, reported it, and they said that they would do something about him. About 15 miles past that, we saw him on the the side of the road -- RELIEVING HIMSELF, IN FULL VIEW OF THE PASSING TRAFFIC. Hilarity. We stopped for gas and to relieve ourselves (i told kelly that apparently it's OK to do it on the side of the road, but she objected), and headed on -- wondering what happened to our guy. Another 15 miles down the road, we see him again -- sitting in the back of a police cruiser. Hah! Dumbass. We tried to stay at the same Comfort Inn we stayed at during our last stay in St. Louis, but they were all booked up -- so we are staying in a Days Inn with a pool and game room and all. Lots of kids here, and a little more expensive than the Comfort Inn, but oh well -- we are shaving a couple of days off our trip already. We checked in, swam, and then headed towards Nacho Mama's -- the restaurant we tried to eat at last Sunday, but they were closed. They were open today, though! It's a cool little fast-food tex-mex joint. Kelly had some tasty Portobello Quesadillas, and i had their taco platter. The salsa was roasted and sublime! The nachos and guacamole tasty as well... Down the road was "Hacienda" and they were throwing a HUGE Cinco De Mayo celebration. Lots of drunken thirtysomethings there. We are going to a St. Louis Cardinals game tomorrow, and then off to home. Yay! I love baseball, and this is only my second MLB game. We ordered tickets in 10 minutes, too. Yay Internet! We have a good internet connection this time, so i've uploaded pics from Tuesday and Wednesday (albuquerque and tusayan, AZ). All of this travelling has been quite fun so far. But it's starting to blend together, because we have done SO much and travelled so far. It's like Ozzy Osborne on tour -- i have to have the name of the city i'm in written on my hand! No, not really, but close enough. Tomorrow -- World Market (that cool Pier-One-Done-Right store, the baseball game, Olney Albino Squirrel Hunt #2, and then home!)