Another bright, sunny, windy, warm day dawned here in western Kansas. The KOA campground offered a nice home cooked breakfast, so the three of us partook. It was very nice, the wife of the couple who own the place cooked up pancakes, sausage, eggs, whatever ou wanted, with fresh coffee, toast and so on. It was very nice. We grabbed a bunch of tourist souvenirs as well when we were finished, and then got back on the road. Today was going to be fairly boring, travel wise, there was nothing in the immediate future for us to see, we didn't have the time to make any long stops or side trips, it was just get on the road and put the hammer down. It was also deadly boring, as anticipated. The heat never let up, neither did the wind. We stopped for lunch in Abilene, home of Dwight Eisenhower, and Melissa got not one, but TWO orders of curly fries that were both overdone and cooked to a crisp, even after taking the first set back to the counter.  But we didn't have the energy to complain any more, so we left them on the table and got back on I-70.  Kansas City was unremarkable, we just breezed through or around it and headed in to Missouri.  Finally, there was some slight rolling hills and elevation changes as we came through western Missouri.  Late in the afternoon, as Hal was driving, we started to hear the air conditioning compressor belt squeal like to drive you crazy. We'd had the AC on all day, both the dash AC driven by the engine, and the roof unit driven by the generator, cooling the interior of the RV.  Hal couldn't hear the squealing belt at all, and we even pulled over near KC to check things out, but the belt held on, and the AC stayed cool, so we just kept on going. Squeal and all.  Finally towards 6PM, we came up the famous (to us, anyway) Midway Truck Stop in the middle of Missouri. This place had been the subject of a dozen or so reality TV episodes a year or so back, and we were curious to see the place.  Not much. The glamour of TV had not rubbed off. We took a look around, browsed through the gift shop, and left.  Our stop for the night was in Columbia, at the large Cottonwoods RV Center. It was a nice place, we found a good spot to pull through, made and ate dinner, and walked around a bit. We were next to a small airport where there were fireworks advertised, so once it got dark we sat around and watched them, and then went to bed. The hot and muggy day had just taken it out of us. I took very few pictures today, since Kansas looked the same as it did yesterday, and Missouri wasn't THAT amazing.