I-70 West from Saint Louis to Denver, Colorado, June 15-17

We left Saint Louis on Tuesday morning, June 15 heading west. We took 2 days plus a couple of hours to get to our RV spot in Golden, a suburb of Denver. Since the weather was so hot, in the 90's, we elected to stay in two Passport America RV parks, one in Kansas and the other in Colorado. Passport America, for a small annual fee, gives you a directory of half-price RV parks. We really like them for the overnight stops. That way we had electricity to run our air conditioner! Yea!
This is a Missouri barn on I-70 west of Saint Louis. I do love old barns.

This was a unique sign for Nostalgiaville, USA. Maybe one day we will stop there. We are sure old enough to have experienced the latter 50's in high school.

This is another old Missouri barn.

Missouri road scene mile 166 east of Kansas City, Mo. Notice how small the cars are on the distant hill.

Here in Georgia & Tennessee, we have barns painted with "See Rock City" but in Missouri this is their barn painted sign. Also ours are only painted on the roof.

One more Missouri barn.

This is the bridge crossing the Missouri River going west toward Concordia, Mo.

When we drove through Kansas City, to avoid the toll road, we detoured south and west on US 40 for awhile. We drove through Lawrence, Kansas, right through part of the University of Kansas.

We passed this old abandoned school on US 40. We would have missed this & U of Kansas if we had taken the toll road. Toll roads can be very expensive for us since we have 4 axels, two on the motorhome & two on the Jeep.

Here it looks like this is a "healthy Kansas farm".

This is a view on I-70 west of Kansas City, Kansas. Again, you can see a long way and enjoy the rolling hills here. They were beautifully green, from recent rains, I guess.

This barn is quite different from many I have seen. Again, we are still in Kansas.

These yellow wildflowers were growing all over the place in Kansas. They were quite pretty to see but I am sure the farmers did not think they were pretty. They look like they can take over an area quickly.

Kansas, the bread basket of the world, has these grain elevators quite often as you cross the state. One Kansas farmer feeds lots of people each year.

This is a cool Kansas Barn.

This is another Kansas barn that is very large.

Phew, we finally made it into Colorado! Kansas is a big state.

This barn looks abandoned. It sure doesn't look like the Kansas barns.

This is an unique Colorado barn near mile 371 on I-70 heading west.

This museum was advertised for miles as a "do not miss". There are people on the top deck but we decided to pass this one up!

Here we have a transition between the old metal or wooden snow fences and the newer, green, natural snow fences of trees planted in a line. There were places where they only had the trees as snow fences. What a great idea!

This Colorado barn looks abandoned.

This is a realll......ly old barn.

But this is probably the oldest barn. Maybe high winds have torn off the roof. I think it is always sad to see barns (and houses) abandoned and falling into bad repair. I always think about how much work it was for theowners to construct these buildings. I love to see the various styles of barns we see across the country.