Fairfield Inn By Marriott Salina

The Tallgrass Prairie once covered 140 million acres of North America. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was established in 1996 to preserve, protect, and interpret the less than four percent of remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The 10,894 acre preserve ...

Although Mushroom Rock State Park is the smallest state park in Kansas, it's the most interesting. The Park has Dakota sandstone concretions. There are many concretions in this Park, but some of it still remains and has been supporting three of the rocks for many years.

The resulting combination of rocks have a mushroom shape. The unusual shapes caught the imaginations of the Native Americans and pioneers, some of whom have left graffiti in softer sandstone.

Fort Larned NHS:

Fort Larned was established on the vast prairie in Western Kansas midway along the Santa Fe trail in 1859 to protect mail coaches, freighters and other Trail traffic from Plains Indians. With nine beautifully restored buildings, Fort Larned is the best preserved Indian Wars military post on the Santa Fe Trail. As the site of an Indian Agency, Fort Larned also was instrumental in maintaining friendly relations with Plains Indians. In July 1978, six years ...

... 8217;s other significant accomplishments during his Presidency included the Civil Rights Act of 1957; support of the Brown V. Board of Education’s desegregation of schools lawsuit; avoiding a nuclear war with the Soviet Union; and began NASA.

Dwight was nicknamed Ike. He was of German descent and in German, Eisenhower was pronounced "Ike- enhower". Dwight preferred to be remembered as General Eisenhower rather than President Eisenhower.

... the rights of citizens from state laws that threatened those rights. It opened the modern civil rights movement for African Americans and laid the foundation for similar movements by other minority groups.

The Brown V. Board of Education case began in Topeka, Kansas.

Wizard of Oz Museum:

The Wizard of Oz is an ageless tale of heart, home, and adventure. The Oz Museum celebrates not ...

Sunday morning, leaving Kansas City behind me and with it the rolling hills, it wasn't long before I was seeing the wind swept prairies of Kansas speeding along beside hwy 70. The fields were a combination of yellow green and burnt sienna. The prairie grasses waved in the wind and it sure was land meant for cattle drives with grass land as far as you could see. I decided to pass on the Greyhound Hall of Fame (dog) but I ...

... at the Good Sam campground and there were 4 motorhomes here and within 2 hours almost 8 more came in behind us. However, they did have a gaggle of geese here to pick up all the crumbs.

One thing that we always wonder when we get to a new site is when is sunrise and sunset. Someplaces it has been as early as 7:30 and as late as 9pm. It doesn't matter about sunrise as I am always up when it comes.

Tomorrow we head for Independence MO for 2 days.

In the morning after eating cereal and packing the trailer up, we were just about to leave when dad noticed that the rear left tire on the van was loosing air pressure. So we went to an auto tire shop and got a new wheel .Fortunately, we were able to start heading west again only about an hour later than we planed. For lunch we ended up eating at McDonalds. Later in the after noon, we ...

... beverages until we have finished for the day. Apparently a proper lunch includes an ice cold beer or two along with a local made sandwich. The local color was just delightful and starting to get ready for the fourth of July holiday the pub was getting busy. Back at the hotel a quick swim in the pool and a short sauna, and now I am waiting for dinner!

... than I wanted it to be because I almost ran out. I pulled in to the station on fumes and my worry factor was about a 9 out of 10 that I wasnt gonna make it. Gas was 2.99 a gallon but I didnt care cause it was push water and that stuff can be hard to come by in the state of Kansas. I filled up and calculated my mileage again which was 16.5 mpg. Even though my mileage had gone down, I was still happy with it. I was on my way again after ...