Kendall

Kendall was a small town. Not much was going on, other than a few houses, a grain elevator, the railroad, and a cemetery. There may have been more people in the cemetery than outside of it.

Speaking of dead things, Myrick was delighted to find an actual pay phone in Kendall! He went and picked the phone up off the hook, and for the first time in his life, he heard a dial tone.

Coolidge

It seemed appropriate that a town named after Silent Cal would be so quiet.

There were sandhills north of the highway outside of town, and lots of hay in the fields. Seems like there's a lot of ranching around this part of the county. We saw the Southeast Colorado Co-Op, gravel roads, some modest and tidy homes, and a bed and breakfast. There are also many older buildings around town, as well as a cafe and a post office.

Syracuse

Thanks to the efforts of our "excellent" navigator, we ended up going through Syracuse no fewer than four times over the weekend. We had some other miscellaneous mishaps here, including the gas station that our GPS said was a Love's, but turned out to actually be a Cenex Eagle. In the parking lot of that gas station, we were delighted to see a Little Caesar's truck, advertising our very favorite: The Pizza Portal!

Syracuse has lots of small homes, most of them quite tidy. There are gas stations, motels, a park, a county museum, and a sand dunes park. The downtown is aging, with a library, school, and churches all near the main street. The county fair also happens here.

One interesting thing we saw here: At the bottom of a hill, there was a huge yard full of old cars that had driven their last mile -- given up the automotive ghost, you might say. Just up the hill, there was a cemetery. We thought it was funny to have the car cemetery just down the hill from the people cemetery.