KC to Clayton,NM

Today was a long driving day. It was already going to be our longest day of driving and then we hit some storms that slowed us down a it. We drove through torrential downpours for about 30 minutes. We eventually got to Kingman, KS. Kingman has a Main street that is right out of central casting for Main Street, America. We stopped there for lunch at Jeri's cafe, which is also your standard small town restaurant, complete with the liar's club of retired farmers sitting around shooting the breeze. My fried chicken sandwich was really good but Deb's chicken tenders were "meh". We eventually rolled into Clayton around 7:30. We grabbed dinner from the Mexican restaurant next door. When I say grabbed, that is pretty accurate, we ordered our food to go and the cashier asked if we wanted a bag of chips. We said "Sure" and she handed us a big zip-loc baggie to fill up from the bin of chips. Whatever, the chips were good, the rest of the food was fine, but nothing special. Tomorrow we head to Santa Fe. Total miles: 471