Stopping in Dodge City, I visited the Boot Hill Museum. This is a reconstructed cowtown main street from the turn of the century. Most of the buildings have been moved from their original locations around town with most of them from Front Street. The cemetery has fake headstones as the city fathers shortly after becoming a state decided the land was too valuable to be a cemetery so the bodies were moved to the present day city cemetery. In one of the 'rooms' was a 1950's style tv playing old "Gunsmoke" shows and on display were autographed photos showing town leaders meeting the stars of the show. A street gunfight was played out in front of us at noon. Later I rode the trolley for a tour of the city. Then we went on down the road toward Wichita.
West of Lamar, along the railroad track were utility poles sunk into the ground, the lowest cross bar looked to be one foot above ground. The ones on the other side of the road were at normal height. We also started seeing many oil well pumpers.
Again the wind was really stiff, the WalMart windsocks on the fences were being shredded.
Leaving Cheney State Park just west of Wichita, we took U.S. 400 on through until it joined I-44 toward Joplin, MO.
Kansas drivers are idiots! They pass on a double yellow lines, going up around curves, and seem to wait to pass until they see at least one vehicle in the oncoming lane. We were seeing more trees now and not so many scrub bushes.
