OK, I'm the weirdo,, I actually like Kansas, really well. Get off the Interstate and take the byways all the way from Kansa City through Colorado and into Moab. Then it becomes 4 days of exploring on the way there and on the way back. 8 days of meandering back and forth and 6 to 7 days of wheelin, hiking and camping =s a great Moab trip taken during a 2 week vacation slot. I get the working thing though, in a previous life I ran my own business and simply did not have that kind of time so I would have been shipping equipment as well.
If you stay on the interstates you can do it easily in 3 says and be in Moab at camp by mid afternoon. Cost in petro, roughly 1,000 @ 12mpg and 2.75 a gallon. The worst part of the entire trip? The final 600 miles home sucks. It is just flat out grueling from Indianapolis to home. I may be in if it is early enough in the spring, April, before or after EJS. In my humble opinion April and late October/early November are the very best times to be there. Too many people in May, and too damned hot from then till mid September. We keep threatening ourselves to go for Christmas in a tent at least once. I wander, sorry... It can be done on the cheap for around 2,000 for 2 weeks out, depending on how much you might like hotels, restaurants, and top shelf booze, so we always end up spending more. More to the point,, throw me a bone here,,, Kokopelli trail would get my blood going, topped off with a jaunt from Moab down to Mexican Hat. Crapola, the more I think about this the more I am in. Jeeze I miss that region.
