Kansas

June 29, 2009

We are camped in Hays, Kansas at EL Charra. It is a FHU place for $18 but nothing better than OK. If you are looking for amenities this isn't the place for you. In fact we found a much better campground operated by the City of Ellis, Kansas $15 a night for water & electric that we will stay in the next time we stop in this area.

Construction limestone exposed in Kansas roadcut

We saw this sandstone outcropping south of Cedar Bluff Reservoir. It was an outcropping such as this that supplied the sandstone used to construct the beautiful limestone churches seen throughout Kansas.

Grocery shopping in Ransom, Kansas

This truck was spotted in Ransom, Kansas outside the local grocery store.

Beautiful old church in rural Kansas

This church was on a lonely road with no houses in sight, about 30-miles south of I-70 in Kansas.

Kansas windmill

A few working wind mills can still be seen on the plains of Kansas.

Kansas wildflowers

We enjoyed the wildflowers on US 283 south of exit 127 on I-70 in Kansas.

Multicolored Kansas grain fields

Large grain fields on the horizon.

Alfalfa field near Hays, Kansas with large bales ready to be picked up

This beautiful alfalfa field was spotted near Hays, Kansas.

Joyce standing by a huge Kansas Cottonwood Tree

We saw this giant cottonwood tree in a city park in Hays, Kansas.

Here are some of our other Kansas Travel Adventures:

Flint Hills Scenic Byway, & Council Grove ** Kansas Wheat fields ** Salt mine tour in Hutchison-Over 600' underground

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills of Kansas ** Santa Fe Trail through south-central Kansas

The world's bread basket ** Lyons, Kansas Underground Salt mine ** Post Rock Fences of Kansas

Grain Elevators of Kansas ** Limestone Buildings of Kansas ** Kansas Grazing land ** Quintessential Kansas

Grain Transporting Equipment ** Wilson & Russell Kansas ** Wilson Reservoir ** Kansas ** Coffeyville

Harvesting Grain in Kansas ** Kansas Pontoon Boat "Happy Hooker" ** Kansas Countryside ** Kansas Soy Beans

Typical Kansas ** Old Native Limestone Churches of the open plains ** Brown Mansion in Coffeyville, Kansas

Little House on the Prairie Historic Site near Coffeyville, Kansas ** Soy Bean Harvest in southeast Kansas

Fall in Coffeyville, Kansas ** Southeast Kansas ** Coffeyville, Kansas Industry ** Dalton Gang