Driving from Oakley to Paxico, Kansas

We got up at 7:00 this morning because we had 300 miles to drive today to our next campground in Grantville, KS. It was 35° when we got up, but had warmed up to 37° with a wind chill of 32° when we started to break camp. While Mike was disconnecting the electric, I took photos of our campsite and the campground that we didn't take yesterday.

It was 8:40 when we left the campground and stopped to get gas at the Cenex station ($3.149 a gallon) before getting on to I-70.

I didn't take a lot of road pictures today because we drove mostly through flat farmland.

But I did find some interesting things to take photos of such as this old house made out of natural stone and the barn next to it.

We decided to shorten our driving day and cancelled our reservation at the campground in Grantville, KS. We called a Good Sam campground at Paxico, KS and made a reservation for tonight which shortened our driving day by 36 miles.

We saw a lot of wind turbine farms

and a lot of oil wells pumping oil out in the farm land.

We stopped to get gas again at a Cenex ($3.299 a gallon) station in Russell, KS. There was a Pizza Hut across the street from the gas station and we went there for lunch. We found a place where we could park
at Pizza Hut and went in to eat. We were going to get the buffet, but decided to order a pizza instead. We ordered a medium Pepperoni Lovers' pan pizza. We ate half of the pizza and got the other half in a takeout box to have for dinner tonight.

We've been driving with a cross wind for most of the day and it had really brought down our gas mileage and we stopped again for gas at 2:40 at a Shell ($3.549 a gallon) station in Junction City.

We eventually began to see more rolling hills the farther east we went.

We arrived here at Mill Creek Campground at 3:30. 

We are in site #15 and have water and electric hook-ups for $27 after our 10% discount for Good Sam members. Since we didn't plan on having to dump our black and gray tanks while here, we didn't need a full hook-up site.

There were only a few local TV stations, so we set up the Dish satellite. We aren't able to get all of the channels we subscribe to because of the heavy cloud cover I guess, but we do have more channels than if we just used the local antenna.