The Weird and Wonderful Kansas

A friend Facebooked me and said he was going to be traveling through Kansas and did I know of any interesting thing to do in western Kansas. He didn't want to see any balls of twine but like exciting and weird stuff. So I spent the next hour researching and mapping out a route. The wrong route. It is a good loop never the less. If you ever get to Kansas. Try it. It is good from either direction.

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Then you definitely have to see the Garden of Eden in Lucas, Kansas. It is just north of Wilson Lake off I-70 just before you get to Russell. It makes a nice loop to exit and go north on KS 32, cross the dam of Wilson Lake ( you can also camp there), and on up to K-18 and Lucas is 1 mile west(18 miles total). In addition to the Garden of Eden, Lucas is the grassroots arts capitol of Kansas and has a very singular public toilet. Also a good cafe. Then you can continue west on K-18 thru Luray and Waldo and see some real Kansas. Turn left on US-281. There is nothing in Paradise but the Angel farm (not kidding). After you head south on US-281 and go 11 miles, you will cross the Saline River. It is the river that made Wilson Lake and ran through our farm. Land Rd is the next left, DO NO TURN LEFT. It used to be called Russell county 8 and our farm was 1 mile to the east past the rock outcropping on the right. Our farm was on the left. by the river. I digress. Continue 5 more miles and you will be in RUSSELL, my home town. Nothing to see there but my dad, and the mural of Bob Dole and Arlen Specter on main Street and eat the best steak you have ever tasted at Meridy's Steak House out by the Highway (that is what everybody calls I-70)

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 oh, Hays just 25 miles west has a cool paleontology museum...Sternburg....fish within a fish...

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 Just realized you were going west to east. Just reverse my directions. Start in Russell, go north on 281, turn right on k-18 and go to Lucas. Then turn right on K-32 and cross the dam going south and catch 1-70 at Wilson ( the Czeck capitol of Kansas) also where Luke and Meghan got married at the hotel where they filmed the movie Paper Moon.