16 June 2022
Topeka, KS to Burlington, CO
748 km
I managed a solid six hours of sleep and spent my time downloading the thousands of photos I had taken the day before. We got together at 10:30 and Chris was unsure of the target. All we knew was that we had to go west with possible storms in Colorado and Kansas.
And we had to be close to Denver for our return there tomorrow.
We stopped at Junction City for a quick lunch and kept driving west. Near Hoxie we pulled up next to a communications tower waiting for a storm to form. We weren’t expecting much but there was some nice cumulus spitting out some lightning in the distance.
And we were standing under the tallest metal structure for miles.
The humidity was oppressive, but the situation called for some football.
Just after five, we loaded up and went west to follow the biggest cell in the area. After a pit stop, we pulled up next to some railway tracks to watch the system. 
It was producing quite a bit of lightning.
We got about twenty minutes and relocated a couple times before settling on a field just before sunset.
And for the next hour and a half, we got the most magnificent lightning display I’ve ever seen.
The cloud to ground lightning was constant, and with the sunset in behind, it was beautiful.
There was so much lightning, I was able to put together a timelapse.
We stayed until the lightning receded.
Our hotel was the Quality Inn in Burlington, about an hour and a half away.
We spent the entire drive ogling our photos.
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