Crossing Kansas
September 11th 2021 Today was to have been the great leap forward -- a dash West to see how much of the Great Plains I could cross before dark. The early pioneers must have had a similar feeling -- measured in weeks rather than hours. My route (US 50) follows the Santa Fe Trail down to Dodge City and then over into New Mexico. I did want to make it to Great Bend, site of Pawnee Rock which was a fixture along the trai
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