how many miles?

Grandma and The Aunts are back!!

QUESTION:
Can you guess how many total miles we traveled in 8 days?

Need a clue or two?
Fly from Salt Lake City, UT to Kansas City, MO
--then play tourist in...
Independence, MO
Kansas City, MO
Liberty, MO
Far West, MO
Adam-ondi-Ahman, MO
Edinburg, MO
Council Bluffs, IA
Winter Quarters, NE (now Florence, NE)
Manning, IA
Audubon, IA
Ottumwa, IA
Eldon, IA
Bentonsport, IA
Nauvoo, IL
Carthage, IL
Griggsville, IL
Hannibal, MO
Chillicothe, MO's Felton Park!
--and a few other various places we passed thru before...
Fly from Kansas City, MO to Salt Lake City, UT



If you were traveling with us by 'land' then this is what you saw a lot of on each side of the road. CORN on the left and SOYBEANS on the right. Sometimes it was soybeans on the left and corn on the right. Other times it was corn on the left and corn on the right. Occasionally it was soybeans on the left and soybeans on the right. You're probably getting the idea by now!


There were also many visually pleasing moments of farms, barns, silo's, windmills, and equipment.
Stay tuned and look for new blog posts as we share our vacation with you over the next days and/or weeks.

ANSWER:3,424 total miles

1,838 miles by air (round trip).
1,586 miles by land.

And you're probably wondering how we did it -- especially since it took us nearly 6 hours to do the famous 17-Mile Drive in California!

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