Roadtrip Across the USA: Day 1

30 hour drive. 8 states. We are finally, FINALLY in Denver. What a freakin drive though. 

Andrew started first. Drove for about 9 hours. We hit bumper to bumper traffic on I-40 in Tenn. for a while. Not bad for me cause I was asleep preparing myself for my turn at the wheel. We stopped somewhere in the middle of Kentucky and I took over. It was 4:30am and the sun was coming up. Weird. But pretty to say nonetheless. Drove through Illinois, and Missouri.  The big silver Arch was pretty and bigger than I imagined. I had my camera out to take a few photos, while driving across a bridge over the Mississippi River but I had no shoulder space on the road so no pics :( This area looked like South Carolina. I was sorta disappointed because I wanted to see something different but as soon as we hit Kansas it was exactly what I was looking for. 

Kansas impressed me very much. The eastern part of the state looked like Ireland. It was green upon green valleys and hills. After about 200 miles of driving we drove past massive, and I mean massive windmills that were numbered in the hundreds. They were just sporadically placed out in the valleys with no uniform to them. It's about time America decided to jump on this European technological bandwagon. We stopped and of course I took some photos. After we hit the road again I fell asleep for about 100 miles and when I woke up Kansas was exactly how I've always pictured it: the flattest land I have ever seen that was coated with wheat/corn/whatever vegetable field you wanna call it. We stopped at a gas station and the entire area smelled like a zoo. Don't know why and didn't care; we were almost on the Kansas/Colorado border. 

Now, as soon as we crossed into Colorado, the sun was setting and the clouds above were of epic proportions. Absolutely gourgous. Where I was sitting in the SUV was the most difficult place to sit and take a good photo of the clouds so I waited for the clouds to pass over the sun. When it did, I asked Whitney to pull over and it was one of the most gorgous natural things I have ever seen in my life. This was a good first impression for me from Colorado. I will have photos up in a few weeks of what I saw (sorry for the long delay but I want to take my precious time and effort into these photos so good things comes to those who wait.) But I must saw Colorado, so far, has such beautiful landscape. We haven't hit the Rockies just yet but we are right next door. Now for sleep because every single one of us needs it desperately.

P.S. I hit a bird in Colorado. He had the entire open sky to fly and he choose to cross over the interstate right in front of me. I felt bad :( Already killing the wildlife here.