arts, farts and tarts: Road Trip: Day 4

We woke up this morning and did a little exploring in Downtown Denver, it is a pretty cute town/city. I was surprised by the amount of homeless wandering around, i was especially surprised by how young they were, it reminded me of Santa Barbara. It was a Saturday morning so downtown was pretty dead. We walked into a few shops, tried on some silly hats, then decided to have breakfast. The thing that shocked me most about Denver was the lack of places to eat! There was literally nothing, we finally found a place called the Delectable Egg, it was not so delectable. We finally set off to cross some states off our lists. Boy oh boy! Now i know why it is called the Bible Belt. I don't think i have ever felt so uncomfortable as i did in Nebraska and Kansas. First of all there were all the billboards. Most of these were expressing their pro life choices: "It's a child not a choice" with a picture of a fetus on every other billboard. I was really impressed that G-d was able to take time out of his busy schedule to make more anti-abortion billboards. I wish i had a picture of it cause i forget what it said but it was signed "GOD." The best though was not a billboard but a farmers land. He had a huge black tire on the fence of his farm that said "Make Sodomy Illegal" (there goes my saturday night!) after that there were probably about 30 smaller tires that had things written like "I'm a sinner" "Christ Saves" "Find the Light" "Repent your sins" etc etc... if i saw someone getting lynched i would not have been surprised. Other reasons i hate Nebraska is because of a sign i saw in front of an apartment building "Two bedrooms starting at $599" WTF!!!! i realize it is Nebraska and the cost of living is not as high as it is in the city, but holy cow! That is crazy! Nebraska is officially on my shit list. We finally got out of Nebraska and into Kansas. There were not as many crazy billboards or larger than churches, we had planned on staying in Topeka for the night, but it was raining so hard and wasn't supposed to let up by the morning so we figured to keep going since we wouldn't be able to explore in the rain the next day. We did drive through Topeka though and it was pretty freaking beautiful. We ended up staying the night in Lawrence, Kansas. I have never heard of it, i guess it is 3 miles away from the University of Kansas. It was a long day of driving and I was really happy to sleep.
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