Its a ways to Colorado from here - on this part of I-70 exit numbers are distances from the border.
We need the Kansas Turnpike
Leavenworth, as in the prison. Note that Kansas routes have that little sun symbol.
I don't really need a lot of pictures to convey the feeling of an extremely
large percentage of Kansas. A lot of it looks like this. Flat.
Now and then there is one of these.
Or one of these.
Or herds of these. For miles and miles and miles and miles and...
Maybe I can look at the sky for a while. Oh, a plane.
A bug splat. Let me look at the bug splat. At least its not flat. Well, technically it is flat and recently hadn't been, but its not flat terrain that is.
Hey - Raytheon - okay, that's kind of cool.
Finally! The end of the turnpike!
Well, that didn't help after all. Oh, a cloud.
It definitely warmed up though.
There is something to see in Kansas after all. The world's largest hand-dug well. We didn't go down inside.
They also have the world's largest pallasite meteorite. Two things to see in one spot. Wow.
It took a while, but we got to something else interesting. Fort Dodge.
All of their roads are named after military or political people. This is the corner of Sheridan and Custer.
It looks like some of the original buildings still stand, though its apparently turned into a war veterans retirement community. The old quartermaster building is now a museum and library.
The parade ground is still a field.
A cannon. I wouldn't think it would be safe to just leave these sorts of things around where anyone can find them. You might poke your eye out.
Another wagon.
Post office.
Commanding officer's quarters.
What was a hospital is now a veterans' affairs office.
Dodge City is nearby.
Dodge City is interesting, but its mostly a tourist trap now. There is hardly anything original still standing, though they play up their past in a reconstructed Front Street and business/shopping district.
To get to historical things you have to go behind fences which are locked after business hours. We got there afterward. The museum wasn't open, for one.
The path to Boot Hill is beyond a locked gate.
I can take pics through knotholes in the fence and holding my camera above it though.
The Kansas Teacher's Hall of Fame is right across the street from Boot Hill.
Yes, the Dodge City coop is on Wyatt Earp Blvd.
This locomotive is in the parking lot.
You can walk inside.
Yep, getting late and still going west...
...and we're still in Kansas.
We had dinner here. I had steak of course. A bit overdone, but reasonably good.
This was in the parking lot.
