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Trip Report | White Sunglasses: Russell Springs, KY

I’m walking Nola through Russell Springs KOA, a park reviewed on Google as “not bad for what it is.” We drove down from my cousin’s in Paris, Kentucky, attracted by the website description. “It's water, water everywhere when you stay at this campground right next to Lake Cumberland!” But the campsite map notes, “No access to lake from KOA.” However, the showers are clean and there's 24-hour laundry. Not bad for what it is.

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Trip Report | Day 12: Greensburg, Kansas

“Are you into green?” asked the lady working the museum store at the home of the largest hand-dug well in the world. Completed in 1888, the well was Greensburg’s biggest claim to fame until an EF5 tornado killed twelve people and wiped out almost all the buildings in 2007.

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Trip Report | Day 11: Dodge City, Kansas

There’s a huge grain processing plant that hums like a well-tuned diesel truck someone forgot to turn off. You get used to it and then hear it like new again, over and over during your stay in Dodge City, which is in the midst of a revitalization initiative. There’s a petting zoo and a dog park right next to the new KOA campsite.

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Trip Report | Day 6: Grand Canyon, Arizona

“We should invite them for a drink,” I said after we left to go shove their plastic levelers under more wheels of our rig.

“Maybe,” Dave said. “Did you see the bumper sticker?”

“No,” though I had noticed the model name on their trailer was Connect.

“Trump-Pence 2020,” Dave said.

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