Kansas

We made it to Kansas on July 4. Our campsite was on Perry Lake about an hour west of Kansas City.

We headed into Kansas City on July 5 and had a wonderful steak dinner at the oldest steakhouse in Kansas City, the Golden Ox.  After dinner we went to the Country Club Plaza area to check out the architecture.  The pictures below are from that area.

The following day we headed back into the city to visit the Arabia Steamboat Museum and the Kansas City Museum.  Unfortunately both were closed.  So we headed to the Jesse James Birthplace in Kearney, MO.This is the home where he was born.This is his original grave site, although his body was later moved to another cemetery next to his wife.  His mother sold stones from the top of this grave to raise money.

On Friday, we headed further west stopping at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka.  We highly recommend stopping here if you are ever in the area.

We needed gas before getting to our campground, so we pulled off the highway and discovered the world largest Czech Egg in Wilson, Kansas.When we arrived at our next campsite at Minooka Park Recreation Area, we were thrilled with our site.We stayed put for a couple of nights, then headed to Dodge City for a visit to the Boot Hill Museum.Then it was on to Parker Colorado with a stop at the Sand Hill Massacre National Historic Site in eastern Colorado.  Very moving.

Here is one last photo of the exceptional scenery in western Kansas or eastern Colorado (not sure which).

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