Leaving late again. Headed due north from Oklahoma into Kansas. (Mrs. Dorothy, we ARE in Kansas!) Once we got to Wellington, we started west. We went through Sharon, Kansas – hometown of Martina McBride. My driver was going too fast to stop and get a picture and he passed it from the other side too. We’d drive west, then north a bit, then west some more until finally we drove northwest into Dodge City. I wonder where Matt and Kitty are? Quigley said, “This ain’t Dodge City,” but Susan says, “This is Dodge City.” Garth sang, “I went to work for her one summer, wheat fields as far as I could see” – well that was the drive – wheat fields blowing in the wind everywhere, and some rocks and plateaus, oil wells everywhere, wind turbines, and black cows. The land became grassier, with rolling hills as we got closer to Dodge City. What a hub of industry – grain silos, beef processing plants, trains and more trains and more trains. There’s tracks across the road from us, so I’m sure we’ll hear them all night. The highways and byways are so much better than the interstates (for seeing small town America; not necessarily for driving on. Boy, have we drove on some rough roads!) Temperature this afternoon in Kansas hit 105. I’m not far enough north yet.
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