Saturday, September 4, 2010

Toto, I've a feeling we ARE in Kansas!








Enjoying Wichita, along the Arkansas River, with its beautiful statue the Keeper of the Plains and a 9pm lighting of a Ring of Fire each night.










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Hutchinson, Kansas delighted us with a stay in the nice campgrounds at the site of the Kansas State Fair and something new to us - a salt mine. Very interesting! Suited up with hard hats and emergency air devices (which have NEVER been needed here), we descended 650' into a working salt mine and underground storage vaults.















Precious and fragile things such as this newspaper printed the day after President Lincoln was shot and George Clooney's batman costume and Hollywood movie films are stored here.









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And, we got to have coffee with friends Donna and Hap.
We met them in Prescott several years ago when they stayed with us as part of the P.E.O. Bed and Breakfast program. Fun to stay in touch with friends like this.