Kansas Plains - One hundred miles in Kansas might be a trip to the grocery store. It is not uncommon for people living in the Western part of the state to routinely drive 60 miles or more just to go to a restaurant for a meal. Out here, distance is frequently measured in time, with an hour representing about 70 or 80 miles or more. It is not all that unusual to read in a small town newspaper about an 70 year old grandma getting a ticket for driving more than 80 miles an hour; she was probably late for her quilting bee in a town 50 miles away.There are plenty of places in Kansas where you can look clear to the horizon and never see a tree nor a man-made structure. During hours of the day, you can listen and not hear any man-made sound; no airplanes, no cars, maybe a windmill creaking in the wind. Note: Between Howell and Cimarron, Kansas traveling west on Route 50.
# posted by Gene Kieffer @ Saturday, June 25, 2005
