Hospitality - Day 51: Eads, CO to Leoti, KS

There was nothing to distinguish Colorado from Kansas besides a jog in the highway and an underwhelming little roadsign that just said "Kansas". Somehow, drivers became much more angry almost instantly after crossing the anticlimactic border, with three separate incidents of people laying on the horn for no apparent reason while passing with zero other traffic around.

Roadside attractions today included a couple dummies advertising someone's old campaign for county clerk, a plague of grasshoppers, and not much else. The grasshoppers were everywhere, and I was probably squishing one or two every couple seconds throughout the day. We stopped at a gas station and saw some cars absolutely covered with grasshopper guts. No one had ever seen them this bad and one woman asked me to squish as many as possible for the sake of the crops, so I stopped feeling bad about the wholesale bug slaughter.

I made it to Leoti ahead of the other two, where Sonia had arranged a Warm Showers host for us. We never actually met our host. She said she was out of town and invited us to just go on in through the back door. Maybe there's nothing out here, but the people are pretty alright - maybe because all they have out here is each other. After making absolutely sure that I was letting myself into the right house, I took a shower and stocked the fridge with beer. Deanna and Sonia showed up, and we went shopping for groceries and cooked a real dinner.


Here are the sights today: