The Ambitious Odometer: {Road Trip} Day Twenty

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

{Road Trip} Day Twenty - Canvasing Kansas

So, today we set out to explore Kansas...

{the Kansas square from my favorite Lilly Pulitzer dress. the pattern is called State of Mind, and I'm pretty sure we've got it in every size from 4-12!}

First of all, I can't believe that I am actually in Kansas! Most people would not think it too exciting at all, and I get that, but I am sooo excited to be in Kansas...seriously... We have been all around it more than once, yet we have never actually been here... Well, Hubby has actually been to Kansas for an oil marketers conference (& actually Colorado, too, for a bachelor party), but now we are all 5 evened up at 47 states... Whoo hoo!

Sooo, Kansas... Where do I begin?

For the most part, it is vast, flat, and yellowish, with a big, beautiful sky, and honestly, a very relaxing drive after the crowded Rocky Mountains...

We happened upon our first stop because it was in Goodland, where we spent the night...

So, here I present...

this GINORMOUS easel with a GINORMOUS replica of a Van Gogh sunflower painting...

because, seriously...

what else is there to do there, but pass the time by staring up at a GINORMOUS fake Van Gogh...

Right???

From Goodland, we traveled through a whole lot of nothing to the even tinier town of Lebanon, where on the outskirts stands a monument marking the center of the 48 contiguous states...

You see, we've already been to the center of all 50 states up in South Dakota...

Bonus...this one is NOT in the middle of a cow pasture... Hooray!

but, it IS in the middle of nowhere...

{the road leading from the middle of nowhere to more middle of nowhere nothingness, but look at that big, beautiful sky!}

There is a tiny little chapel there, too...

but really, there were actually more people at the Arctic Circle when we visited there!

From Lebanon, we continued on to Abilene, and the town that President Dwight D. Eisenhower called home for most of his childhood...