Hampton Inn' 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.

... the railroad was completed through Kansas, the fort was abandoned.

Santa Fe Trail Museum:

The Santa Fe Trail originated in Independence, MO through Kansas and ended in New Mexico. The Trail began in 1821 and carried a stream of merchant wagons and pioneers until replaced by the railroad system in 1880. The Santa Fe Trail Museum tells the story of the transportation route once known as the Santa Fe Trail which blended the Indian, Mexican, and American cultures.

... 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.

Brown V. Board of Education NHS:

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that segregated educational facilities are "inherently unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This decision by the Supreme Court was one of the most significant in U.S. history. Its affirmation of the 14th Amendment made it clear to all Americans that the federal government would ...

... 8217;t pass on the chance to visit the “Oz Museum”.

The Wamego exit led nine miles along a small two lane road dotted with occasional homes and stands of trees, their yellowing leaves blowing hard in the wind. Wamego is the home of the Oz Museum and I arrived at my lunch time. There was an old theater in this one street town that was showing Wizard of Oz, except on Sunday. Two stores down was a ...

... 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.

... which is right next door (you would think they could come up with a different name at least.) Stopped at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, to see the branch of the Kansas City Public Library that has a façade made of giant books, and Larchview Nature Center where we spent a nice hour viewing the birds, turtles, snakes, evil squirrels(!) and nature displays. Four more hours east on the interstate until our hotel near St. Louis.

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 ...

... I dont know exactly what the problem is, could be a weak motor, but for some reason the dont want to turn right away when I hit the switch. When this happens, I have to stop and get out to pull on the wipers to help get them started. Once I do that, they will work the rest of the day just fine. So it started to rain, not heavily, but enough that the wipers needed to be turned on. Well I hit the switch for the wipers and nothing happens ...