Wednesday, August1
I thought Nebraska was long and hot. The temperature rises to 108 degrees on this two lane blacktop as we truck on through western Kansas. This land is so flat I can stare out my windshield down the road and see the future. And the future is a giant 24' x 32' reproduction of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. The good people in the Rotary Club of Goodland, Kansas also commissioned an 80 foot steel easel so that the state flower could be seen from the interstate. Check this out:
I'll pull back and show you the whole thing so you have some perspective.
Pretty cool, no?
We actually passed a county fair, so the count up to now is:
Ron Paul Signs - 3
Grand Openings - 1
County Fairs - 1
People were pulling off the highway into the Rush County Fairgrounds in numbers even though the temperature was 105 degrees at 4pm. I would be sick in the parking lot.
We pulled off the two-laner onto some gravel country lanes to get to one of the three geographical highlights in Kansas: The Monument of The Rocks. These are giant limestone pillars rising up out of the dust in the middle of some farmer's field. Apparently they are leftover from a time when the whole Great Plains was underwater.
Here, look at these:
I know...it looks like Utah, right? But no, it's in the middle of Kansas.
Look how dusty my car is.
Random observation from Randy:
"When the ambient temperature is higher than your body temperature, there is no refreshment."
Speaking of Randy, we are on way to his sister Karen's house to stay the night. She lives in Herrington, Kansas. When we get there, she has chicken sandwiches and peaches and ice cream for us. That was tasty.
We also watched some Olympics and made fun of ping-pong players. Later that night I heard cows mooing and lowing, but with a weird high-pitched sound. It was eerie. Randy and his sister told me they were at a holding pen just behind the house, and those cows knew they were being shipped off the next day.
Favorite Town Names: Severance, CO
Assaria, KS
Favorite Sign: Bill's Shootin' Shop
Tomorrow we can sleep late because Kansas City is only 3 hours away.
Here's a granary, because it's pretty much the only type of building we saw for ages.
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