Of course, if you use Dubby's criteria of having to spend two nights in a state before counting it, I'll have to subtract out Wyoming, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Rhode Island. And now Kansas.
I flew from the Shenandoah Valley to Denver Sunday, and drove up to Fort Collins. I've got to get accustomed to this altitude before my presentation this Friday, so I had planned to go hiking in the Rockies wilderness. But for some reason, my asthma is acting up. Given my trouble breathing, I decided that going ten miles into the wilderness by myself with asthma in the thin air can wait a day or two.
So instead, I spent the day driving over to Kansas. Nice drive. Flat. Lots of scrubland and rangeland. Mile after mile of it. As I neared the state line, I began to see more oats, wheat, and even some irrigated corn here and there, but generally it was all prairie.
Instead of just stepping across the state line, I drove on over to Goodland, the first real 'town' on Interstate 70. It's a little bigger than Bridgewater, VA, and about the size of Fernandina Beach in Florida.
Nice monument on the courthouse lawn.
Click on this picture, and look at the colorful decoration on the Telephone Building. I'd guess this was built in the 1930's.
Click on this picture for a view of Main Street.
From the one hill I encountered, I took this picture, showing the priarie stretching off into the distance as far as the eye can see... Click on it for some perspective.
I've posted a couple more entries below, too, covering our trip to Florida.
3 comments:
Allen and I drove through Kansas on the way to Utah. It was the most boring state ever. The sky was really big, and there seemed to be nothing at all but highway, dirt, and sky. And more dirt. And like three exits in the whole state to places with names like "Dirt Road" and "Tumbleweed Drive." We made jokes about how they got their names. "Hm, what should we name this road?" "Um... well, there's some dirt." "Okay. Dirt Road." "Hey, what should we name this one?" "Um... well, there's some dirt." "Nope, nope, already got a Dirt Road." "Oh. Hm. Well, there's tumbleweed." You get the idea.
Kansas does have greet beef!
David - I love the open road photo! Reminds me of SD where I grew up. In SD the scene would be a little flatter and longer to the horizon.
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