July 30 - Traveling on to Cedar Bluff State Park, Ellis, Kansas

  We left Kanopolis State Park fairly early this morning, and our current location is only 2 hours away, so we stopped and did a little grocery shopping and had lunch out.  We are about half way across Kansas.  The terrain is now a lot flatter, but still is very pretty.  There are lots of rolling "high plains", with cattle grazing.  But there is also farm fields of soy, corn, sorghum, and wheat.  The dark greens of the soy and sorghum and the golden of the grains, all swaying in the breeze it really beautiful.  Then, there are the occasional wind turbine farms, of hundreds of wind turbines.  All producing electricity from wind.  Neat!
  We arrived at the park and set up.  It is 94 degrees and breezy, but the sun is so hot, it is hard to be outside.  It has taken our RV all day to cool off down to 83 degrees, with the sun beating down on it.  There are only small trees around our campsite, so the shade is minimal.
  After setting up, I drove around the park, to get a sense of it, while Peter stayed in the air conditioning.  The heat really knocks us out.  I stopped at the beach, and just sat in the water for a bit to cool off.  The waves were really nice--not too big, not too small.  Came back, showered in cool water, warmed up leftover dinner, reserved a few Thousand Trails campsites for 3 months from now, and did the blog.  Will watch an episode of something or other, and just read.
  Tomorrow is supposed to be 102 degrees.  We think it will be a day in town.

Cedar Bluff State Park photos:

Beach