Rained at about 1 a.m. This morning I found a few tumbleweeds in the hotel parking lot. After church we went to "Dorothy's House & The Land of Oz" in Liberal, KS. A Kansas governor has declared Liberal to be Dorothy's home to be in that town, so the locals put up statues of Dorothy, moved an old house from out of town into home as a historic artifact, set up a walk-through exhibit of life-sized scenes from the movie, displayed a memorabilia collecton, etc. They also had a museum of more local history, including an artifact associated with Coronado's trip through the area. I'm glad we saw it, but the tickets were probably more expensive than they should have been. We later stopped in Greensburg, KS, to stretch our legs, but did not feel that the really big hand-dug well, the rare meteorite, and stuff about the devastating 2007 EF5 tornado was worth the museum admission, so we passed. After a long drive through the breadbasket of America, we turned north at Wichita and passed through a part of the Flint Hills. (I saw a different part of these 20 years ago when I visited the graduate school at Kansas State University.) The ranchland was not as flat as some parts of Texas, but there were very few plants more than a foot high - no yuccas or prickly pears in Kansas like Texas or Oklahoma. The late afternoon/early evening light helped add beauty, too. We are staying overnight in Emporia, KS. Big road push tomorrow.
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