We got a good early start from Tulsa and made good time. The scenery was beautiful and so green and clean. When we would come over a hill and it would take our breath away. We drove though. Bartlesville, OK and saw this. How weird is it they have Hot, Warm and Cold water tanks. LOL. It was a pretty drive.
We arrived just outside of Witchita in Augusta. We stayed at 4 Mile Creek RV Park for 3 nights. Again we have no sewer hook up, but I am no longer worried about 3 nights. Remember, I can do 5!!! I am that good. First thing we did was put the Kansas sticker on our new map!
This park has a lot of open grassy area. If it weren’t so hot I could imagine people throwing frisbees, having picnics, etc in these areas. They have a small lake for swimming and canoeing or kayaking with a huge BBQ pit by the water.
This place is on a dirt road and everything is now covered with a dirt. The truck looks terrible. The RV we had washed in Abilene is filthy. What is a girl to do?
We were leaving the park to go site-seeing and had the trash on the back of the truck and forgot about it. We were driving down the interstate when Dennis saw the wine box fly off. We stopped and put the trash inside the covered truck bed and went back for the box. We carried that trash with us for a couple of days before we remembered to put it in the dumpster. Hey, but we are not litter bugs!
While in the Wichita area we went to the Great Plains Nature Center. We purchased a National Park pass there and walked through the trails. They are concrete or black top trails. Do you still call those trails?
We came across this ‘artifact’ along the ‘trail.’ Who hasn’t been there done that?
We all saw a child’s mask on another post in the woods.
We did go off the path a couple of times and find it beautiful and much cooler without all that pavement.
There is a bull frog in this picture. Where’s Waldo?
We had a nice time there. Have no idea how far we walked. We keep forgetting to turn our fitness app on when we go. 😅 But we are definitely getting our exercise.
We stopped and grabbed lunch at the tiny Mexican restaurant, Sazon, and it was a great find. It was in a strip mall, not a shack or anything. Very nice, but very small interior. We got a beer and Dennis had the special, Posole soup, (he is a fiend for soup even on these hot days) and I got to have a Gordita! It was delicious and I would totally go back.
While in Witchita we also went out seeking the statue of the Keeper of the Plains. I really expected a real life depiction of an Indian, but this was more of a folk version. But it was in the middle of the Arkansas river and they have a wonderful park on both sides of the river. There were people picnicking, running, riding bikes and walking over the pedestrian bridge there. A cool place. While there yours truly had to visit the ladies room and could see no public out buildings at all. There was the Exploration Place in a really cool building near the statue. So I head in there. They actually take a picture of everyone that enters. I had my mask and sunglasses on. Do you think they could identify me by that photo? But it was a really neat place. It is science based, they have a dome theater, a creative learning center and many exhibits. If I had kids I would definitely go there. I would probably enjoy it myself, but I just needed the ladies room.
We also stumbled across the Sedgwick County Courthouses. I love old courthouses!
This one has so many statues.
All in all we had a good time in the Wichita area. But we are making our way to Colorado to meet up with Greg and Ruth Lynd near Pagosa Springs, so we will be staying shorter amounts of time at each location until we get there. There will not be as much site-seeing for a while until we reach them.
July 25, 2020
We pulled out of 4 Mile Creek and Augusta, Kansas to head to Hays, Kansas and the Creek Side Resort. There is a 2 hour drive to Dodge City from there and I am kinda thinking about that. I don’t know.
On the drive to Hays we saw many perfect little farms. Just what you would picture in your mind. The quintessential farm or ranch place. Wish I could have gotten a picture of one! They just go by so fast. I did catch a couple of pictures from the road. But trust me, much better in person.
A couple of the windmill arms passed us on the interstate. It was kind of a creepy feeling as they passed. The top of the driver’s side arm is wider than the road. So Dennis would pull over onto the the left shoulder when they passed us on the right just to be sure they didn’t snag the top of our RV. I did not know that the tip of these things have a serrated edge, did you? As many times as I saw these at the Port of Beaumont staging area, you think I would have known that.
We stopped in Piedmont, Kansas to eat at a Jim & Lila’s Cafe. It had 4.5 out of 5 stars. Well, the food was okay, but the old lady was smoking, you had to walk around a portable air conditioner to go to the restroom. There were several locals in there eating, but come to find out, I think it is the only cafe in 30 miles. LOL.
We stopped at a couple of rest areas on the way to Hays, but that is about it. Kansas has nice rest areas, outdated interior, but clean and air conditioned. Dennis called the roads here washboard roads but they don’t have a lot of pot holes or anything, just very bumpy. At one rest area I was getting out to go and the truck started moving forward. I think Dennis was trying to get rid of me! But I was only on the running board so he missed his chance. He put the truck in park and I went on. I am gonna have to start watching him more closely.
We got all set up at Creek Side Resort and are under flash flood warnings for the 3 nights we are staying here. We decided when it starts raining hard we are going to go out and scrub the truck and RV down. That will be fun.
Until next time!
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