Day 46 – Great Bend to Larned, KS
I have been, very gradually, working my way uphill across Kansas. Ottawa stands at 900 feet, Council Grove at 1230. McPherson hit 1500 feet, while Great Bend climbed up another 350. This ascent, if you can call it that, has been indiscernible in the walk, obscured by Kansas’s implacable flatness, but it’s far from over. […]
Day 45 – Lyons to Great Bend, KS
“Crackheads,” muttered Richard disparagingly, as two younger locals walked into Kat’s Korner in Chase, Kansas. I encountered Richard soon after strolling into the gas station mini-mart, as he lounged in a booth just inside the door. I grabbed a coffee and joined him, as he was eager to chat while waiting on his biscuits and […]