Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive etc. No turtles. Four lane most of the way. When it was two lane it was still 60 or 65 mph. Out in the Great Plains. Nothing to see but fields of green, an occasional cow, a few horses and one small herd of sheep. Missed any Memorial Day parades that might have been. Good driving weather though-not too hot and a really big t'storm after dinner last night. Covered just over 200 miles from Emporia KS to Dodge City KS with a tourist stop at two places in Hutchinson KS (KS is a big state). I visited the Underground Salt Mines. Pretty cool little tour to take if you are into mining and all that kind of big machinery stuff but the really really cool part of the place is what happened to 45 acres of it after they got the salt out. A company leases those acres for underground storage. The place is 650 feet down, constant 68 degrees, low humidity-perfect for storing valuables like an original copy of the New York Herald printed the day after Lincoln was shot, medical records and of course it is THE storage place of choice for the Hollywood artifact archive-the shirt James Dean wore in Giant, the master prints of GWTW and Wizard of OZ. And it is the resting place of George Clooney's Batsuit-the one with nipples.
Stop 2 was at the other end of Hutchinson, I think. The Cosmosphere is a tiny slice of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. It has an IMAX, planetarium and a Bill Nye inspired science lab demo all about Goddard and his engines including fire and explosions and flying things.
And that's the Daily Dull Dispatch from Dodge City.
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