Beautiful Morning turns to Stormy Weather

    We started the next day from the beautiful Inn at Woodhaven in Louisville, Kentucky. It's a great renovated manor and carriage house. Salmon, Eggs, and potatoes- Great Breakfast! It was a nice sunny day and we started one of our longer drives through Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas - about 13 hours. We were a little bummed that we didn't have time to see the Dali Lama's talk at the KFC Yum! Center. Yes they really do have a KFC Yum! Center as you can see in my photo! Do you think the Dali Lama knows what that name means?

The first four states flew by with beautiful rolling hills and big open skies - just big swatches of color that went on forever. And then we hit Kansas; those blue skies quickly turned to big black menacing storm clouds as we hit the same storm that brought so much destruction to Oklahoma. You can see the skies just starting to get dark behind that pretty white bridge. I decided to nap a little so I wouldn't have to think about the storm. I woke up to David telling me that he couldn't see where the road was; I have never seen such heavy rain. We kept following the headlights in front of us through Kansas City. Some hail started coming down and we stopped under an overpass where we got a weather alert: "Tornado Warning for your Area. Take cover now." We weighed our options: 1) go lie in the ditch on the side of the road with hail and rain coming down on top of us, or 2) keep driving through it. We opted for #2. It was pretty scary for a while and then we saw some blue skies up ahead. We finally drove out of the storm into a beautiful day - the change was like night and day. Kansas should really be like 5 different states. We drove all afternoon and night in Kansas, crossed two time zones and arrived in Colby, Kansas at midnight (2 am our time)! 

Here's the storm through photos: