Vacation 2016: Day 2

When I posted this day's collage, I stated that this day would be the biggest driving day of our trip. That didn't turn out to be true but it still was a really big day. We traveled through 4 states and spent over 12 hours in the van. We drove through southern Kansas, the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas and through most of New Mexico.

This picture was of our first major stop, at a playground in Liberal, KS. The kids were supposed to use this playground to work out their wiggles, but it was hot! They tried to run around but got too hot really fast.  

After Kansas, we headed through the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, which were the first time in each state for the youngest two (and the first time back in these states in nearly 7 years for the oldest two). They didn't see much of these states but we're going to count them anyway. At a truck stop in Texas, we stopped for drinks; I got a Dr. Pepper slush. It was just like the Dr. Pepper "snoballs" I used to get all the time in college.

For dinner we stopped at a Chipotle in Albuquerque.

Mmm...Chipotle.

We spent most of this day looking for different states' license plates and watching the terrain slowly change from wheat fields to desert. By the end of the day, we were pondering whether Radiator Springs was nearby. We finished our day watching a bit of American Ninja Warrior at a hotel in Gallup, New Mexico. Good times.