Day 26 - Not a Hilton But It'll Do

 Atwood, Kansas

 Marysville, Kansas Pony Express

Marysville, Kansas Historic Courthouse

We left Colorado and entered Kansas about 9:25 am.  It was about 6 pm when we made it to Missouri.  That's a long time in Kansas!  But to be fair to Kansas, we found the landscape surprising.  It's not completely flat.  Western Kansas had some sagebrush and rocks and all of Kansas has rolling hills.  There were huge sorghum fields everywhere.  Not the kind you make molasses from but grain sorghum that is fed to livestock and people.  The sorghum fields were cinnamon colored, adding so much appeal to the sort of ho hum landscape.  The sorghum plant looks like short corn.  The grain on top is a conical tuft of reddish brown.

We drove through lots of very small towns.  Homes and towns were neat and well kept.  Very wholesome.

Marysville was a pretty little historical town.  This town was the first stop on the Pony Express Line and later was a stage coach stop.  The Historic Courthouse was built in 1891. There's a Pony Express Museum and a Courthouse Museum.

The other claim to fame of Marysville is its large black squirrel population.

Signing off on the next to last day of this wonderful adventure, Bill and Marsha